Margaret Jobe, Another Casualty, Library Journal, May 30, 2003. Excerpt: "Last year the government documents community became alarmed by a growing trend on the part of the federal government to suppress access to information in the name of national security. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other federal agencies removed information deemed 'sensitive' from web sites and, in the case of the USGS, from depository libraries. Many think the Bush administration seems intent on reducing access to information. The most recent casualty in that offensive is PubScience." Includes a useful overview of the Notable Documents List compiled by the ALA's Government Documents Round Table.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/31/2003 12:05:00 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.
