[BOAI] How to stay on top of open-access developments

[Peter Suber]

The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) recently moved to a more powerful
platform, TagTeam, and is more useful than ever. To follow new OA-related
news and comment, subscribe to one or more of the project feeds. OATP
offers a version to suit just about anyone.

RSS feed
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.rss

Atom feed
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.atom

Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/oatp

Email feed
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=OATP-Primary&loc=en_US

Let me pause to plug the email feed in particular. It delivers one
neatly-formatted email per day. At the top is a table of contents with
links to OA-related headlines. At the bottom are the same items with short
descriptions, summaries, or excerpts. When you click on the URL to
subscribe (above), you'll be asked for your email address and the solution
to a captcha. That's it.

If you don't want to subscribe to anything, then just bookmark the HTML
edition and visit periodically to catch up.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp

To follow developments on any OA subtopic, like OA in the social sciences,
OA from society publishers, OA for students, OA in Switzerland, or OA in
the global south, see the OATP links page on how to construct the URL for
the feed published by any OATP tag.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OATP_links

If you previously subscribed to an OAPT feed from Connotea, it's time to
switch over to the counterpart feed from TagTeam. Going forward, only the
TagTeam versions of the OATP feeds will be comprehensive.

If you want to go beyond following OATP feeds as a reader, and help build
the feeds by tagging new developments, see the details in our transition
handout.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam

For background, here's a short introduction to TagTeam, our new open-source
platform.
http://bit.ly/tagteam-about

And here's the OATP home page.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project

     Peter


Peter Suber
Director, Harvard Open Access Project
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Senior Researcher, SPARC
bit.ly/suber-gplus
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