Nice idea: instead of a university press office sending out a stream of press releases about cool faculty research projects, how about a blog? See the egghead blog from the University of California at Davis. (Thanks to ResearchBuzz.)
Even better: what if every blog posting about a faculty journal article linked to an OA copy in the institutional repository?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/08/2006 04:10:00 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.
