[GOAL] Is there one place to look for high-level overview of state of OA?

[Heather Morrison]

There is a very great deal going on around the world in the transition to open access, which is wonderful to see. Does anyone know if there is a single source that one can turn to in order to be sure to be advised of at least the most significant developments? One reason I participate in the GOAL list is the hope that everyone will make sure at least the most important developments are noted here, but there are so many venues today I am not really sure about this.

To explain why I am asking this, the last time I felt up to speed on advocacy efforts for national OA policy in the U.S. was when Peter Suber was publishing the daily Open Access News blog. Today I see snippets of news articles here and there suggesting that this advocacy is ongoing, often sent by various people in one-on-one e-mails which does not seem very efficient, but nothing to pull things together into the big picture as Suber used to do. Is this really the state of information sharing in OA, or is there a central one-stop source I am missing?

Jihane Salhab maintains an open bibliography on behalf of the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons project: https://www.zotero.org/jihanesalhab/items/collectionKey/GJIKUEHR

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca