Donald MacLeod, Shake-up for academic publishing, The Guardian, July 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Faced with the escalating cost of journals for academic libraries, the House of Commons science and technology committee is urging all UK universities to set up their own repositories to store their published research and make it available online free of charge."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/22/2004 08:24:00 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.
