JISC has purchased a UK-wide license to Early English Books Online, a digital collection of 125,000 full-text books published between 1473 and 1700. (PS: To recoup its considerable costs, EEBO offers only priced access, with selected free samples. Hence, the newly funded access throughout the UK is not so much open access as subsidized toll access, analogous to what faculty and students have through their university library.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2003 11:19:00 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.
