"Will 2002 be seen as the watershed year when the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) really took off and began to have an impact on global scholarly communication? ... Coupled with the expansion of the internet, there is now the ability to distribute information rapidly from author to consumer and thus impact upon traditional forms of publishing via the new collective repositories of research material." From Colin Steele's recent article in Incite, E-prints: the future of scholarly communication?
Posted by
Guy at 11/07/2002 08:27:00 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.
