----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Peters, Dale" <peters@SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Thursday, 24 September, 2009 20:29:11 Subject: Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC An alternative to the systematic commercialisation of Open Access data, is the formal constitution of COAR: the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, scheduled to take place in Open Access Week 2009. http://www.driver-repository.eu/DRIVER-COAR.html Emerging as the sustainable outcome of the DRIVER infrastructure, COAR is a community-driven approach, where institutions can determine how they want their repositories to be deployed. The action plan is directed towards international organisational support for Open Access in research infrastructures around the globe. COAR utilises the tremendous synergies emerging in higher education between repositories, researchers and research funders to coordinate collaborative networks in the vision of a global knowledge infrastructure. Once the legal and technical infrastructures for OA dissemination reach the coverage and maturity that equally satisfies the researcher's data-sharing concerns and matches the respect that WorldCat enjoys, third party service providers, like OCLC, become equitable partners without questionable terms and conditions. Regards, Dale ------------------------------------------ Dr D Peters Scientific Technical Manager DRIVER II State and University Library of Goettingen peters@sub.uni-goettingen.de Tel: +49 551 39 5242 Fax: +49 551 39 5222 Mobile:+49 (0)160 989 67663 ------------------------------------------ http://www.driver-repository.eu/ http://www.driver-support.eu/en/ ---------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.