Senators McCain, Leahy, Harkin, and Lieberman have introduced a bill to provide free online access to the reports of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service. A similar bill was introduced in 1998, but defeated. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/04/2003 10:32:00 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.