More on ideological web deletions by the Bush administration....An internal memo from the Department of Education declares an intent to delete information from the department web site if it "does not reflect the priorities, philosophies, or goals of the present administration."
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and 12 other research and library groups have written an open letter to Department Secretary Roderick Paige to protest the plan. Quoting from the open letter: "Such materials are essential to advancing scientifically-based research and need to remain accessible to the library, educational research, and related scholarly communities." For more details, see the AERA press release and Richard Monastersky's article in the November 25 Chronicle of Higher Education (accessible only to subscribers).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/25/2002 09:52:00 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.
