More on the Patriot Act and libraries....Because the act forbids librarians from telling patrons when the FBI has seized their borrowing records, librarians have been devising clever, effective, but lawful signs to warn patrons about FBI spying. (See five signs on one page.) The same article reports on the growing movement in which American cities adopt resolutions repudiating the Patriot Act. This week Oakland became the 20th city to do so.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2002 08:51:00 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.
