More on the approved UCITA amendments....In today's Washington Post, Ted Bridis does a good job of explaining why the amendments don't go far enough. (I didn't realize that some Microsoft "updates" spy on your hard drive, make guesses about what's illegally present, and use the results to disable some users from making future downloads. The amended UCITA prohibits other kinds of corporate "self-help" but not this practice.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/06/2002 09:19:00 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.
