More on the problem of excessive accessibility....Michael Geist is predicting more lawsuits against search engines for making information easy to find that someone believes is harmful and ought to be hard to find. The worrisome precedent is the Deutsche Bahn attempt to get Google and Alta Vista to drop links to a website on railroad sabotage. (See FOSN for 4/22/02.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/11/2002 10:24:00 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.
