James Sweetland, Developing Digital Collections: Do We Know What We Are Doing?Library Collection Development & Management, October 2002. Students are disregarding literature that is not online, making a very large body of literature invisible. Libraries are cancelling print journal subscriptions, making back runs inaccessible even to those who care to look at them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/24/2002 02:01:00 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.
