OAI : OAI service providers. Gerry McKiernan, Open Archives Initiative Service Providers, Part I: Science and Technology, Library Hi Tech News, November 2003, pp. 30-38, Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities, ibid., December 2003, pp. 24-31. [Open Access News]  11:26:51 AM   [Feedback ]  

Open Access : Two important digital initiatives. CLIR, New Digital Initiatives Have Import For All Higher Education, CLIRinghouse, November/December 2003. Excerpt: "Two major digital initiatives announced at the 2003 fall forum of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have far-reaching import for the future of scholarship and teaching in universities and colleges throughout the United States and beyond. One --the Distributed Open Digital Library initiative-- will make more holdings of major research libraries accessible universally in an online, collaborative digital library. The second initiative --the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program-- will engage multiple institutions in R&D work on ways to ensure long-term access to digital resources." [Open Access News]  8:29:48 AM   [Feedback ]  

Open Access : Medscape Readers Overwhelmingly Favor Open Access. A reader opinion poll on open access is taking place at Medscape. The polling question: "Movement toward open access publishing, or free access to peer-reviewed research articles, has recently gained momentum in some areas. Do you favor or oppose open-access publishing?" The poll runs Jan 8 thru Jan 15. Current numbers indicate that open access is favored by a whopping 94%. [Open Access News]  8:25:13 AM   [Feedback ]  

Open Access : Overview of Creative Commons. Dwight Deugo, Creative Commons: The boundaries of intellectual property, ADTmag.com, January 13, 2004. A good introduction to CC, the problems it solves, and how it solves them. [Open Access News]  8:24:13 AM   [Feedback ]