Lila Guterman, Embargo Imbroglio: U.S. trade restrictions raise fears about new threats to academic publishing, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2003. Accessible only to subscribers (free online excerpts). Quoting Irving A. Lerch, director of international affairs for the American Physical Society: "The idea of withholding intellectual information because of its origin just makes no sense. Sooner or later, ideas are circulated. No government anywhere can prevent those ideas from being circulated. We're not talking about ideology, we're talking about science that benefits everybody."
Guterman moderated the Chronicle's online colloquy on this subject this morning. The transcript is now online (accesslbe only to subscribers).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/15/2003 06:38:00 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.
