The latest issue of New Scientist has an interview with Brewster Kahle. When asked whether the Internet Archive was omitting important information by only archiving free sites, Kahle replied, "Maybe. But there are already archives of commercial information. It's like a traditional library: you pay for access or you schlep down to a building to look at it. It's the old world, it's tired. Our archive is the people's medium, the wired way, and you can use it wherever you are. How many subscribers does LexisNexis have? How many people use Google? Which would you rather publish in?"
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/22/2002 04:15:00 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.
