T. A. Callister, Jr. and Nicholas C. Burbules, Just Give It To Me Straight: A Case Against Filtering the Internet, an undated eprint, probably a preprint. (Thanks to LIS News.) Excerpt: "The Internet is now the primary way many teachers and students access information in their educational pursuits. For many young people, if they can't access information in this way, they may not ever be able to discover it. To be honest, we suspect that the deeper issue is that many parents, and a few educators, do not want young people to be making these decisions for themselves, and don't mind if their experiences and knowledge are limited to the bland, the conventional, and the mainstream. They don't want their kids to become Nazi's, but they also don't want them to become vegetarians, atheists, or freethinking humanists. Ultimately, we believe, the filtering debate is not about pornography or bomb-making directions; it is about the reluctance of some adults to allow their children, and other people's children, to have the free access to information that will allow them to come to their own conclusions about the world and their place in it."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/17/2003 01:08:00 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.
