Eduardo Saguier's open letter on academic censorship and the dearth of open access has now been posted to a forum at Dr. Dobb's Journal, where it is gathering some replies. Quoting Saguier: "This letter is submitted with the purpose of promoting debate as to what extent the practice of scientific research should or should not be regarded as a fundamental civil and human right, to what degree electronic information for academic study should be subject to democratic deliberation and scientific priorities rather than to market forces and business profits...." (PS: Saguier's letter was previously posted to the FOS forum. I encourage respondents to copy their replies to both the DDJ forum and the FOS forum.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/31/2002 11:07:00 AM.
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.
