Comment. Google has made it very easy to set up powerful search engines for particular sites or topics. (Yesterday I made one for my blog, newsletter, and writings on OA.) I expect to see specialty search engines --like Dean's-- spread quickly to every conceivable research niche. Of course each one will be optimized for OA content.
Suggestion to Dean: drop Wikipedia and stick to peer-reviewed sources or make a second version that sticks to peer-reviewed sources.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/26/2006 12:45:00 PM.
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.
