The July 1 Newsweek has a story on FOS, equally devoted to free online content from Science Magazine and the forthcoming open-access journals from the Public Library of Science. "Why can't the people who pay for [scientific] research --the taxpayers-- get free access to it?" It's the most mainstream media coverage of FOS that I've seen. Like all mainstream coverage, however, it has the inevitable, inaccurate comparison to Napster.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/28/2002 08:28:00 AM.
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.
