Dorothea Salo, The Behemoth Stirs, Caveat Lector, July 28, 2006. Excerpt:
I have referred to university faculty and academic administrators, none too kindly, as the slumbering behemoth as regards the march of open access....The behemoth is starting to yawn, stretch, and bestir itself.
I’m quite pleased and proud that one of the authors of the ACLS draft report on humanities and social-science cyberinfrastructure is from MPOW. (I’m trying to inveigle him into helping me with a brown-bag series, but no luck yet; he’s a busy man.) Recommended measure number two from the report: “Develop public and institutional policies that foster openness and access.” I can’t argue with that....
And then we’ve got twenty-five provosts tossing a gauntlet (PDF) over FRPAA. That’s huge, stunningly huge; we’ve had libraries and the occasional faculty senate make their voices heard in the past, but this is Big Admin and it just cannot be ignored. (It contains a lot of the usual suspects, actually: California, Dartmouth, Purdue. But where are MIT and Cornell, I wonder?)...When there’s leadership, others may follow....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/29/2006 10:13:00 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.
