The Charleston Advisor has given out its Third Annual Reader's Choice Awards. The Best New Product is èrudit, the University of Montreal's institutional repository, and the Most Improved Product is BioMed Central. Congratulations to Montreal and BMC! Congratulations as well to Ann Okerson for winning the one-time Five Star Award "for contributions to the library community in the licensing of digital content". Ann moderates the LibLicense discussion list. Reed Elsevier customer service won the Best Lemon Award.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/11/2003 04:31:00 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.