Another advantage of online scholarship. A Dutch library patron was fined £160 for taking off his shoes in the Delft library after repeatedly being told not to do so. A journalist who interviewed him reported that his feet smelled like "a bag of rotten potatoes that had been kept in a cupboard for two weeks."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/09/2002 09:40:00 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.
