A Danish court has ordered an internet news service to stop deep linking to individual stories in a Danish newspaper. While this ruling is harmful to the web at large, and should be reversed, its effect on scholarship will be limited. The court's rationale is that deep linking undermined the value of the newspaper's advertising. While online scholarship depends on deep linking, links to individual journal articles will rarely undermine anyone's ads. On the other hand, scholarship in history and the social sciences often depends on information in ad-supported media like newspapers, and search engines that index them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/09/2002 09:17:00 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.
