In view of the recent news about more search-engine competition between Yahoo and Google (see, for example, Yahoo! Drops Google, Launches New Search Engine) an openly accessible message, Yahoo and Open Access, posted on 8 March 2004 by Sumir Meghani (Manager, Business Development, Yahoo! Search) to the American Scientist Open-Access Forum, is of interest. So is the response, Re: Yahoo and Open Access, posted on the same day by Stevan Harnad,
the moderator of the AmSci OA Forum.
Posted by
Jim Till at 3/11/2004 08:21:00 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.