Highbeam Research, which searches free and priced literature, has added 1.5 million articles to the free side of the service. From the press release (January 30, 2006):
HighBeam Research...announced today a series of upgrades to its collection of content on the HighBeam Research Engine, offering more than 1.5 million full-text articles to individual researchers for free and adding extensive premium reference and news articles from Knight Ridder, Oxford University Press and The Washington Post. Full-text articles from more than 200 sources are now offered for free, permanently, to all HighBeam users, even those who are not registered. For the free offering, HighBeam selected BusinessWire, Financial Management, Science News, USA Today magazine and many other sources from its HighBeam Library – a collection of more than 35 million articles from more than 3,000 business, trade, academic, special interest and general interest publications. As part of HighBeam's new slate of research services, free access to The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English and The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English will soon be available through the HighBeam Reference area of the research engine.
Additionally, HighBeam has begun spidering and linking to free publications on the open web, covering areas in which its users have indicated an interest. Among the more than 100 publications and nearly 100,000 articles indexed by the HighBeam Library database are American History, CIO, Financial Advisor, Inc. and Wine Enthusiast.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/04/2006 09:41:00 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.
