The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) opposes the Government Printing Office (GPO) plan to stop the print distribution of important kinds of government information to the public through the Federal Depository Libraries Program (FDLP). From the AALL action alert (January 26): 'GPO's plan, which has not been approved by Congress, represents a major disruption to the FDLP's role of ensuring no-fee, permanent access to government information for the American public. GPO has not yet established a reliable system ensuring delivery, version control, authenticity, permanent public access and preservation of government information products they disseminate and make available online. Until such a system is fully functional and GPO can ensure permanent, no-fee and ready public access to electronic government information, GPO should not gut its print distribution program.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/27/2005 10:06:00 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.
