More on the USA PATRIOT Act....Librarians at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Library Association criticized the act for authorizing the secret seizure and destruction of library records and documents. One participant: “In 50 years, when historians want to conduct research, they may find that a lot of the original materials have been destroyed by our own government.” (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/19/2002 10:05:00 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.
