Steve Outing, Libraries Threaten Paid Online News Archives, Editor & Publisher, June 6, 2002. Public libraries provide free online access to back issues of newspapers while newspaper sites charge for the same access. How should newspapers respond? Outing recommends that they follow suit. (Thanks to Shelflife.)
PS: Public libraries use tax dollars to subscribe to newspaper and other periodical databases, and then make their contents freely available to local patrons, even to dial-in users at home. If you live in a city large enough for the public library to subscribe to scientific and scholarly databases, then get a library card and password and explore what scholarly resources are available to you. Does anyone know of universities cancelling subscriptions and recommending that students and faculty log on to the public library?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/06/2002 12:09:00 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.
