Michelle Delio, Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word, Wired News, November 15, 2003. A profile of Ibiblio, "one of the Web's oldest and largest digital libraries...and all of it is completely free to visitors, thanks to backing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and technology companies like Linux distributor Red Hat." Quoting director Paul Jones: "Basically, if you want to share information about almost any subject, ibiblio will be happy to host you for free. The only rules are that whatever you want to share must be noncommercial, legal and have some value to other people." (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/17/2003 09:09:00 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.
