I write to draw the list's attention to unethical behaviour by a
national harvester - the Australian Research Online gateway. This
gateway, operated by the National Library of Australia, has rejected
the OAI-PMH standard and has announced a local variant. This sort of
behaviour by harvesters
Centre for Research Communications released a major upgrade to the SHERPA
service RoMEO on the 22nd October. If you have not already received the
announcement, you can find details of the improvements at:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/news/romeo09.html.
We are continuing our work to improve RoMEO.
Bill Hubbard has announced the winner of the SHERPA Spirit of Open
Access competition: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/Haiku.html
Set your research free
As flowers offer nectar
To the passing bee
Miggie Pickton, University of Northampton, UK
(My own (losing!) entries, submitted
** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
Full Hyperlinked version of this posting:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/645-guid.html
Professor Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and
Director of the University Library at Harvard has done a JISC podcast
interview about
PRESS RELEASE
COAR establishes a global knowledge infrastructure
The international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009.
The aim of the organisation is the networking of over 1000 global
scientific repositories
