[BOAI] hita-hita -- Institutional OA Advocacy in Japan

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Sugita Shigeki.  --Peter Suber.]


Dear colleagues,

DRF is pleased to announce the release of a new report.

"hita-hita -- Institutional OA Advocacy in Japan"
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=Digital%20Repository%20Federation%20%28in%20English%29&openfile=hitahita2011.pdf

The term “hita-hita” was employed to signify something that penetrates
gently and smoothly. As of 2011, a total of 760,000 research papers
are accessible through IRs across Japan. Open Access (OA) is not
politically forced at state level or institution level. Instead, we
have built repository manager-level lateral solidarity to share
experience, exchange various creative ideas, add improvements and
disseminate our ideas, thereby highly developing respective IRs.
This report introduces large and small ideas that have enhanced
penetration of the OA movement and developed IRs in Japan, and it also
outlines the activities of DRF, which has supported such ideas.

--
SUGITA Shigeki <ssugita at office.otaru-uc.ac.jp>
Digital Repository Federation, JAPAN
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