Jane Richardson, "Here Comes the Knowledge Bank," The Australian, December 4, 2002. (Available online only to paying subscribers.) Excerpt: "A quiet revolution is under way in scholarly communication....But overall, the academic author is the least aware of the challenges and opportunities in the quiet revolution that is changing scholarly communication, says Colin Steele. The Australian National University's director of scholarly information strategies told a conference in Taiwan that the revolution would affect the lives of authors, publishers, librarians, researchers and teachers. The crucial issue would be new forms of creation, distribution and access to knowledge, including the balance between commercial and free information."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/04/2002 06:33:00 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.
