See esp. the chapter on Results of Digitisation Projects and Access. Table 8 in that chapter ("Means of User Access to the Digitised Content") shows that in 10 of the 12 surveyed countries, users don't have to pay for access to the resulting digital editions.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2009 12:26:00 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.
