An anonymous story in Stuff.co reports that the New Zealand Ministry of Education has paid for all primary and secondary schools in the country to join the licensing package purchased by large public and academic libraries. Citizen access to these resources begins on March 4. (PS: This is subsidized toll-access, not open access, but an interesting use of government funds to widen access for all citizens in a country.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/15/2004 02:21:00 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.
