In the July 12 Washington Post, Bill Broadway has a good story on the Octavo high-res digital edition of the Gutenberg Bible. Octavo has an interesting way to provide free online access and still recoup its considerable costs: it has a free edition of the full-text on its web site (660 images), and sells an enhanced edition on CDs. The $65 CD edition supports magnification of up to 200% for every image, while a $1500 CD edition supports 500% magnification. This would be an elegant solution except that the free online edition offers only thumbnails and enlargments that are roughly 12% of lifesize, far too small to read.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/14/2003 05:07:00 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.
