Andrew Albanese, Digital Libraries Reach Out to Alumni, Library Journal, July 15, 2002. Dartmouth alumni now have free online access to 70 million full-text articles from 7100+ journals. Journal licensing agreements do not allow Dartmouth to pay for access by students and faculty and then extend access to alumni. So the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library bought new subscriptions just for the alumni. (PS: Will new gifts from the happy alums offset the cost?)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/01/2002 03:44:00 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.
