I just mailed the July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at OA and the variety of digitization projects. How far can we defend the principle that the results of publicly-funded digitization projects should be OA? What if the public funds are supplemented by private funds? What if the works to be digitized are under copyright? What if the project wants to provide gratis rather than libre OA?
The round-up section briefly notes 166 OA developments from June.
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.
