Dear Friends, Last Saturday (24th May, 2008). I participated in a Bar Camp in Delhi. This was organized by IBNMS and was named as Blog Camp Delhi. I made a presentation there on what is Open Access and how bloggers can play a role in it. http://snipr.com/blogoa I am giving an extract here: .."One way is to blog on Open Access itself. There are few already there and well established like the one by Peter Suber [7]. Some others which I know are OA Librarian [23]; The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics [24] and I will also mention the one from student community – Open Students: students for open access to research [25]. Second way is to blog about various open access resources. Every day, number of resources including journals, repositories, open courseware etc are launched and announced. These could be evaluated, annotated and listed under well planned categories (or tags) in a blog. Links of such tags or categories automatically collate resources into listings of related posts. It could be very similar to 'Digital Scholarship' [26]. Third way has to do more with subject experts. Scientists and Scholars can blog on how to promote open access within their own subject domain. Open Access Anthropology: Promoting Open Access in Anthropology [27] is beautiful example. Very similar concept has been highlighted in a presentation - Blogging Archaeology: creating an Open Access source for knowledge [28]. Fourth way is to blog about Peer-Reviewed Research. All such blog posts can be aggregated at one place [29]. There could be many more ways to promote Open Access through blogging".. - http://snipr.com/blogoa --Sukhdev Singh. (9868960074). -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.