In the February 10 Indo-Asian News Service, Papri Sri Raman describes John Willinsky's personal campaign for open access to knowledge in India (another link). Quoting Willinsky: "People's access to knowledge is actually decreasing instead of increasing....There are online journals that cost at least $3 to just access once, and are
made available for just a few hours at a time. Only a limited number of academic papers are available online free of cost....Although new technology has made access possible, fewer academic journals are available to the reader." Willinsky is the director of the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/21/2003 12:36:00 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.
