The European Parliament has asked the Commission to speed up the process of setting up a European Digital Library, which aims to become a one-stop shop for accessing literary and scientific works online....
Digital libraries are essential for enabling scholars and students to access the rapidly growing number of scientific publications worldwide, as well as ensuring the accessibility of Europe's cultural heritage....
In a resolution adopted on 27 September 2007, the European Parliament supported the Commission's two-year old Communication....They recommended that the European Library "must initially concentrate on the potential offered by text material that is free of rights" and invited "all European libraries to make available to the European Digital Library works that are free of rights which they already hold in digital form"....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/05/2007 10:55:00 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.
