Great blog post on UPEI Library's implementation of an almost fully-automated IR which harvests metadata from databases and faculty CVs to create records in the IR. Faculty then review the metadata and can amend or enhance it as well as locate the final version, and depending on the publisher's open-access policy which can be found in the SHERPA/RoMEO database, point to that electronic copy of the paper.
Top 5 => The expansion of Open Access and Creative Commons for Open and Peer to Peer Learning Open content production, and access to existing scientific and scholarly content has made tremendous progress over the last year. All this is being used in the context of many new initiatives for more peer-oriented learning such as the P2P University initiative. The first inklings of open accreditation have been debated about. George Siemens’ connectivist learning theory has matured.
A petition organised by JISC, European partners and SPARC Europe attracted nearly 25,000 signatures in 2007, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as more than 800 education and research organisations. SPARC Europe's director David Prosser ta
The University of California libraries have entered into an agreement with Springer Science+Business Media to publish faculty journal articles and allow free, open access to them.