Florence Olsen, GPO hunts fugitives, Federal Computer Week, May 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Government Printing Office officials are looking for so-called fugitive documents and plan on sending a Web crawler out to find them. As more federal agencies publish government information on Web sites without notifying GPO, important documents that should be indexed, catalogued and preserved for public access in the Federal Depository Library Program have instead become 'fugitive' documents, according to GPO officials. Their answer to the problem is to use Web crawler and data-mining technologies to find them. GPO officials request that companies with those technologies submit proposals by June 2 for services they describe as 'Web harvesting' in a recent solicitation for bids." (PS: The fugitive documents are already OA, but that's not enough to satisfy the government's responsibility to index and preserve them. I like the way this story makes clear that indexing and preservation are not parts of OA but new layers of value laid on top of OA.) (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/25/2004 01:55:00 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.
