Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, Napsterize Your Knowledge: Give To Receive, MarketingProfs.com, January 21, 2003. A call on knowledge workers to share their knowledge freely on the net. Nothing wrong here except the inane and inaccurate analogy to Napster. The authors should know that Napster is controversial because it disregards the consent of the author or creator. Why invite this controversy into the fundamentally different project of asking authors to consent to open access? Ben and Jackie: The problem is tactical. We have more to lose from misunderstanding than from well-informed opposition.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/24/2003 03:16:00 PM.
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.
