Fee-based access isn't quite public, Quad-City Times, December 16, 2003, by the newspaper staff. Praising Rock Island County, Illinois, and Scott County, Iowa, for taking steps to provide public records free online, but criticizing them for not going far enough. Excerpt: "We have impatiently awaited the day when our bought-and-paid-for public records actually would be accessible to the general public without traipsing to a courthouse during weekday business hours. That day remains far off. But both counties got us quite a bit closer....[Free] online access is more than a convenience. It's a standard."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/17/2003 10:26:00 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.
