Kathleen Burge, Fighting to be free: Thoreau lover denied bid to give out book at Walden, Boston Globe, July 19, 2004. Eric Eldred, as part of his Internet Bookmobile campaign that shows people how to download free books from the internet, was recently at Walden Pond distributing free copies of the public domain Walden when he fell afoul of park officials who asked him to leave for handing out literature without a permit. It also became clear that Eldred's actions might eat into the profits of the Thoreau society, which sells copies of Walden at the pond, and which would make it difficult for Eldred to get any kind of permit.
Posted by
Garrett at 7/19/2004 10:56:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
