The Internet Archive's Bookmobile will visit the Seybold Conference next month. The bookmobile is a rolling demonstration of the value of the public domain. Using portable print-on-demand technology and a satellite dish connected to the internet, the bookmobile takes a user's request for any of over 100,000 public domain books. Bookmobilist and driver Ashley Rindsberg then downloads the text, prints it, binds it, and hands it over, no charge. The Bookmobile's expenses are paid by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/19/2003 12:57:00 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.
