Tracey Caldwell, European Library to provide a 'co-operative framework', Information World Review, February 11, 2005. Excerpt: 'The European Library (TEL) will launch next month, offering public access to the collections of ten national libraries across the continent. TEL will replace Gabriel as the virtual gateway to Europe's national libraries. The European Library was initially set up as an EU project. It is now owned by the Conference of European Librarians (CENL), and supported by the participating libraries. Jill Cousins, head of The European Library Office, told IWR:..."Some libraries are interested in possible revenue opportunities, such as the selling of some pictures, but at the moment everything available on the portal is free - almost everything is precopyright."'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/11/2005 01:17:00 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.
