Google will make searching of the digitized materials available at no charge to researchers around the world, while protecting the rights of copyright holders in display and reproduction of the digitized materials....[T]the work of libraries to make the world’s knowledge available to readers and researchers will be dramatically enhanced by the Google Book Search project and other such endeavors.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/10/2005 10:36:00 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.
