Chokehold on Knowledge, an editorial in yesterday's LA times. "The Bush administration's plan to strip the Government Printing Office's authority is a threat to democracy....Currently, a federal agency such as the Pentagon can't delete an embarrassing passage from a historical document without first going through the hassle of asking each reading room to obscure the passage with a black marker. If [OMB Director] Daniels gets his way, all an agency will have to do is call up the document in Microsoft Word and quietly hit Control X to delete the passage for eternity." (Thanks to C-FIT.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2002 09:31:00 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.
