Travis Hunter, Digital Library Publishes UC Books Online, Daily Nexus, November 25, 2003. The California Digital Library has added XML tags to the electronic editions of books published by the University of California Press, and is now offering 1,400 of the resulting ebooks free of charge to UC users. It offers 400+ free online to the general public, and promises to do the same for every UC ebook when it is "about two years old". Some of the books are fiction, and the rest monographs in all disciplines from the sciences to the humanities. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/26/2003 11:54:00 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.
