More on deletions from government web sites....In today's issue of Chris Sherman's SearchDay, Marylaine Block judiciously surveys the problem. Excerpt: "Now, it is possible to make an honorable case for many of these deletions of public information....The problem is that the previous presumption, that publicly-funded information is the rightful property of the public until proven otherwise, has been replaced by the presumption that the public has to prove to a suspicious government that it deserves the information." Quoting Gary Bass, of OMB Watch: "We are moving from a right to know to a need to know society."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2002 12:09:00 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.
