Just glanced at the OpenDOAR live server and I'm pleased to report that we've just passed the 600 manually quality assured repositories listed on the site. This is great, as only a couple of weeks ago we passed the 500 mark. Of course what the site doesn't show at this point are the number of sites we've actually discounted from the service. A lot of the repository targets listed on other repo directory sites are dead ends, empty, non-functional or simply not Open Access repositories. To date we've evaulated and discounted nearly 180 sites, and the number is rising each day. In time we'll list these as the service, hopefully, develops.
PS: BTW, the SHERPA Blog is new, only launched on Monday. This is a welcome extension of SHERPA's online presence and service to OA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/24/2006 09:32:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
