Laura Sessions Stepp reports in the Washington Post that college students are relying more and more on the internet for their research, and their professors are worried. Many of the worries are justified, of course. But the quantity of peer-reviewed FOS for students to find is still small and growing. Check back after the revolution. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/19/2002 03:32:00 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.