The National Library of the Netherlands has agreed to archive journals from Kluwer Academic Publishers. The arrangement provides the benefit of library-directed long-term preservation for the journals, but not open access. However, the library has the right to offer open access to the journals if KAP should ever cease to offer commercial access to them. The library is seeking to make similar agreements with other academic publishers. For more details, see the press release.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/20/2003 05:18:00 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.
