Hero of the global literacy revolution, The Star Online, April 28, 2005. An unsigned profile of Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (PG). Excerpt: 'Specifically, PG intends to harness the world’s great literature, making it easily available to as many people as possible. The mission is to collect the largest possible number of works whose copyright had passed into the public domain, digitise them and make this new form of books widely and easily available for free. Prof Hart knows about the power and convenience of books and libraries, and he sees PG as building the biggest library ever. The project became his magnificent obsession.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/28/2005 06:18:00 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.
