Jemima Kiss, Online publishers rail against Google, Dot Journalism, October 27, 2004. Excerpt: "Internet search firms are 'parasites' that will eventually kill growth in the online publishing industry, according to Associated New Media managing director Andrew Hart, [s]peaking at the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) conference in London last week....Paul Rossi, publisher of http://www.economist.com Economist.com, described Google as a 'brand killer'....One delegate suggested that the commercialisation of search could be the root of these problems for the online publishing industry. He suggested that the BBC could set up and operate a new open source search facility as a public service, but the suggestion was dismissed by Richard Deverell, head of interactive news at the BBC. 'That would require a vast technical resource that the BBC doesn't have - and I'm not sure we should have,' he told the conference."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/04/2004 01:02:00 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.
