Berlin publisher Hans Heinrich has proposed a controversial plan to use public money to hire unemployed Germans to digitize images and manuscripts in German museums, libraries, and archives. The digital copies would not be OA and their use would require permission of the facilities housing the originals. Klaus Graf summarizes the controversy, offers some criticism of his own, and calls for OA to Germany's cultural heritage.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/06/2005 07:27:00 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.
