More on open access to court records....I used to classify these news stories under "the problem of excessive accessibility". But more and more, the stories are about decisions to provide open access, or decisions to balance open access and privacy, rather than objections to open access as excessive compared to the former policy of open paper access. The Center for Democracy and Technology has just posted the results of a 50-state survey, showing which records each state makes openly accessible.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/01/2002 10:06:00 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.
