Every resident of Ohio now has free online access to 22 EBSCO databases, including full-text articles from over 3,000 journals. The package was negotiated by Libraries Connect Ohio and cost $2.5 million. If every school and library in Ohio licensed the same content from EBSCO, they would have paid a total of $18 million.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/02/2002 11:01:00 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.
