G.E. Gorman, The problem is access, the solution is infrastructure, Library Link, March 2003. Excerpt: "Perhaps at last there is movement in this direction. As Fred Friend (2002) indicates in his recent article on access, there are moves afoot to set up easily-used document delivery services and to develop barrier-free access models. He maintains that new purchasing models, better library cooperation, electronic document supply, new payment models ands new routes to content are indicators that publishers are paying greater attention to users than in the past. Indeed, this is so, driven in part by electronic access and the way this allows direct user-resource interface in a way not contemplated a few decades ago."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/31/2003 12:54:00 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.
