Stuart L. Weibel, "Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web," Journal of Library Administration, 34, 1/2 (2001) pp. 73-80. Only this abstract is free online: "The explosive growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) is due in part to the ease with which information can be made available to Web users. The simplicity of HTML and HTTP servers lowers the barriers to network publishing."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/30/2002 04:16:00 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.
