Judith C. Russell, the U.S. Superintendent of Documents, gave a presentation at the ALA Midwinter Meeting on what the Government Printing Office (GPO) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) are doing to promote public access to information. Excerpt: "[T]he one I want to emphasize today...is the decision by the Association of Research Libraries to collaborate with GPO, and ultimately with the entire library community, on a national digitization plan, so that we can coordinate our efforts to digitize a complete legacy collection of U.S. government documents and make sure that the documents are available, in the public domain, for permanent public access." (Thanks to ShelfLife.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/22/2004 08:08:00 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.
