OA sourcebook launches

Alma Swan and Leslie Chan officially launched OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook) at ELPUB 2009 (Milan, June 10-12, 2009).  The OASIS subtitle or motto is:

Practical steps for implementing Open Access

From today's announcement:

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative 'sourcebook' on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use....

A brief [video] introduction to OASIS is available here.

Comments

• OASIS should help every kind of OA outreach and educational effort find the most effective material and avoid reinventing the wheel.  Use it as is, improve it, help it grow, and spread the word.  Kudos to Alma and Leslie for bringing this useful idea from drawing board to launch.  (Disclosure:  I'm on the OASIS steering committee and co-founder with Robin Peek of one of the OASIS partner resources, the Open Access Directory.) 
• Also see our past posts on OASIS (1, 2, 3).