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

[Laura Bowering Mullen]

I think the best resource for keeping up daily with open access developments (on an international basis) is the Open Access Tracking Project. I get an email every morning that includes a very nice list of everything OA that is hot off the press. 

I am so appreciative that this information is aggregated and brought to me every day as an alert service. It is a huge time saver from a very authoritative source. 

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project 

Thanks, 
Laura Mullen, Rutgers 

Laura Bowering Mullen 
Behavioral Sciences Librarian; Open Access Specialist 

Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ 
lbmullen at rci.rutgers.edu 
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-5949 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Heather Morrison" <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> 
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 12:09:35 PM 
Subject: [GOAL] Is there one place to look for high-level overview of state of OA? 

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, 

-- 
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 



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