Scholars push for freedom from digital copyright restrictions, Associated Press, November 18, 2004. Excerpt: 'As academic and scholarly journals move toward publishing in paperless formats, university professors are finding it difficult to maneuver through copyright laws that restrict how their work can be used...."You have situations throughout the country...where faculty members who write articles can't assign them to their classes to read because the library can't afford to buy the journal," said James Campbell, a graduate student at the University Maine's Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering. Campbell is one of the organizers of a conference this weekend in Bangor focusing on helping creators of scholarly work provide open access and eliminate a variety of means by which their works are restricted.' (PS: Disclosure: I'll be speaking at this conference.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/18/2004 01:10:00 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.
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.
