The radical shift in scholarly publishing to open source / open standards environments is now mostly well accepted although there is still much to be done in shifting academic culture to a wholesale adoption of this trend in scholarly communication.
Today I am not going to add to this debate other than referring to a report commissioned by the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mat?uranga o Aotearoa supported by the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL)), “Institutional Repositories for the Research Sector Feasibility Study”....
As the Content Strategy develops, we are anticipating that clusters of institutional repositories will emerge, connected by a national framework and a unifying search and discovery layer....
The National Digital Heritage Archive project provides a strategy for preserving New Zealand’s digital memory and community and research repositories will provide important content feeds into the archive.
With all of these components lining up nicely, a national framework for institutional repositories in the research sector was a natural development, making it feasible for New Zealand’s publicly funded research to be accessible online....Institutional repositories in the research sector sit well with the formal authorised content described in the strategy and it is anticipated that the sector will provide an exemplar for open source/open standards repositories for others to follow.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/11/2006 11:02:00 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.
