When good corporations go bad. Now even National Public Radio requires "prior written permission" for links to "any material" on its web site. NPR is worried that links from commercial sites will make the non-profit corporation look commercial, and links from advocacy groups will make the NPR journalists look biased. Of course this is nonsense. To keep the connection to scholarship clear: if a scientific article discusses contrary conclusions, and links to articles asserting those conclusions, then no sane person would believe that the links imply that the authors agree. BTW, I like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Car Talk.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2002 09:14:00 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.
