Michael Keller, Casting Forward; Collection Development After Mass Digitization or Doing One's Part: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Charleston Advisor, April 2004. Excerpt: "We are at the cusp of projects that will dramatically increase the amount of carefully selected, extensively validated, widely consulted, and often cited information available through the internet. Only a few considerations hinder us from providing our readers, our students, and our faculty with vastly improved opportunities to search, to read, to cite, and to exploit the digitized contents of our libraries. And for publishers, those few considerations hinder the next level of exploitation of their publications, whether issued in the past decade or the past centuries. Significantly those hindrances are not mechanical."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/13/2004 11:24:00 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.
