Barbara Quint, The Digital Library of the Future, Information Today, July/August 2002. On CrossRef's plan to expand from linking to searching full-texts, free of charge to users. Clearly this will help users. But the plan alarms providers of secondary services like abstracting and indexing, who apparently believe that their usefulness depends on print-era obstacles to access. "The bottom line is that primary publishers have apparently decided there's not enough room in the lifeboats for secondary services."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/01/2002 12:39:00 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.
