In yesterday's Washington Post, Jim Krane reports that the Pentagon restored open-access to hundreds of documents it had taken offline after September 11. While they were offline, most were still available in print. The documents were restored to government web sites just as the Federation of American Scientists (FAA) was about to challenge their removal under the Freedom of Information Act. Quoting Stephen Aftergood, director of the FAA's Project on Government Secrecy: "If we want an open and accountable government, we need this type of information in the public domain."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2003 01:38:00 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.
