In its May issue, Scientific American posts the second annual Sci-Tech Web Awards. These go to 50 web sites in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology. A sign of progress: all 50 are free, though SciAm takes this for granted and doesn't even mention it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/03/2002 05:50:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.