More on the Patriot Act....Sarah Whalen, a professor at Loyola University School of Law, was denied access to documents on a puritanical sect of Islam by the U.S. National Archives. The clerk cited the Patriot Act and explained that the documents "may contain information that terrorists can use, like names and addresses and information of U.S. citizens". When Whalen explained that the documents she sought were declassified and over 30 years old, the clerk replied, "I'm sorry, you can't look at the Saudi records even if they are a hundred years old....Ask again, and I will call security to remove you from the building and have you barred as a security risk." Whalen tells her story in the August 12 issue of The Palestine Chronicle. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/03/2003 09:58:00 AM.
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.
