Jeffrey Young, Technology Gap Among Colleges Perpetuates 'Digital Divide' in Society, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 4, 2002. There is a serious digital divide even among universities in an affluent country like the U.S., and it aggravates the digital divide in the non-academic society at large, according to Larry Irving, former U.S. assistant secretary of commerce. Quoting Irving: "You have major universities that are getting involved in the next-generation Internet, while you have tribal colleges, minority-serving institutions, [and] poor rural colleges that really aren't online."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/04/2002 12:38:00 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.
