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Thursday, January 06, 2005

OA is the top library story of 2004

The editors of LIS News have compiled a list of the Ten [Library] Stories That Shaped 2004. Open access is number 1.
Open Access and the Economy

Viable alternatives to for-profit publishing gained steam this year with the popularity of Wikipedia, the successes of the Public Library of Science, a proposal by the National Institutes of Health, and the milestones reached by Project Gutenberg. Open Access publications holds great promise for addressing the hyper-inflating cost information.

Librarians are charged with spreading and preserving information. Despite advances in technology, copyright extensions and fair use limitations are opposing these tasks like never before. Librarians are also getting the squeeze from spiraling publishers' prices and budgetary constraints.

Being stifled by profiteering content providers and their legal campaigns against the freedom of information is the greatest obstacle facing libraries today.

(PS: This is exactly right. For more detail on the OA developments in 2004, see my timeline or 2004 review.)
Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 1/06/2005 09:31:00 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.

New to the concept of open access? See my Open Access Overview.

Peter Suber, Editor
Gavin Baker, Assistant Editor
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