On September 8, the Digital Library of India was launched in New Delhi by Indian President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. On its opening day the library contained about 27,000 open-access books, many digitized from rare and deteriorating ancient originals. In his remarks in launching the library, President Kalam emphasized that the library "gives equitable access, irrespective of place, caste, creed or colour or economic status". The new library is part of the Universal Digital Library project, which seeks to provide open access to one million ebooks by 2005.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/17/2003 12:47:00 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.
