Many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs), and research funding agencies support Open Access in various ways.
Funding agencies including the European Commission, [htm] Wellcome Trust in the UK, the [htm] National Institutes of Health in the US, and many other organizations require recipients of research funding to deposit copies of all research outputs into a freely-accessible, publicly-accessible Open Access Repository.
Other organizations such as the World Bank are supporting Open Data initiatives by collecting and disseminating data sets and indicators into globally-accessible, freely-accessible repositories.
- What are the major issues related to repository interoperability for these types of organizations?
- What issues related to repository interoperability should NGOs, IGOs, and research funding bodies be discussing?
- What other ways can these types of organizations support repository interoperability?
- What resources exist related to interoperability issues specifically for NGOs, IGOs, non-profit organizations, and research funding agencies? What other resources are needed?
- What related issues are on the horizon?