Quoting Joel Hartman, CIO for the University of Central Florida, in an interview in the January issue of Syllabus: "To a great extent our reliance on the network is roughly comparable to our dependence on the power grid. The recent blackout in the northeast, I think, has pointed to how much life can change in the event of a power grid outage....[W]e're now looking very seriously at the kinds of risks, threats, and even routine planning and operations that deal with the reliability and security of those networks. Higher education, as you well know, has been an open environment for the creation and sharing of information, and our networks have been designed to facilitate open access to information. We are confronting the conflict between open, free access, and secure network environments. We are going to have to adjust to change and the new realities of what it takes to keep our networks operating, secure, and robust."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/01/2004 09:13:00 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.
