Danielle Douglass, Hamilton Library Suffers Devastating Budget Cuts, Ka Leo O Hawaii, February 09, 2004. The University of Hawaii at Manoa's newspaper reports that the university library was forced to cut its serials budget by half a million dollars. Several librarians comment on the loss, noting the impact on research at Hawaii. The relatively high price of science journals is noted. Then article quotes one librarian as saying: "Science publishers feel that they can charge a lot ...There's a big movement in science now to create so-called free sources and open-source journals ... but it hasn't grown to the extent that you can get rid of the really big name journals that are very expensive." (Source: librarian.net)
Posted by
Garrett at 2/11/2004 05:21:00 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.
