One of the things I miss most about being out of school is having access to periodicals, books and all kinds of sources that the general public doesn’t. As much as I love the Toronto Public Library system, the fact of the matter is that there are a certain number of academic sources that one can only have access to if they are part of an academic institution, which I find quite exclusionary and antithetical to a democratic society.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/19/2006 10:53:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
