<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from Sugita Shigeki. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
DRF is pleased to announce the release of a new report.<br>
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"hita-hita -- Institutional OA Advocacy in Japan"<br>
<a href="http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=Digital%20Repository%20Federation%20%28in%20English%29&openfile=hitahita2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?plugin=attach&refer=Digital%20Repository%20Federation%20%28in%20English%29&openfile=hitahita2011.pdf</a><br>
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The term “hita-hita” was employed to signify something that penetrates<br>
gently and smoothly. As of 2011, a total of 760,000 research papers<br>
are accessible through IRs across Japan. Open Access (OA) is not<br>
politically forced at state level or institution level. Instead, we<br>
have built repository manager-level lateral solidarity to share<br>
experience, exchange various creative ideas, add improvements and<br>
disseminate our ideas, thereby highly developing respective IRs.<br>
This report introduces large and small ideas that have enhanced<br>
penetration of the OA movement and developed IRs in Japan, and it also<br>
outlines the activities of DRF, which has supported such ideas.<br>
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SUGITA Shigeki <<a href="mailto:ssugita@office.otaru-uc.ac.jp">ssugita@office.otaru-uc.ac.jp</a>><br>
Digital Repository Federation, JAPAN<br>
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