William Watson, Napster for Nerds, Montreal Gazette, January 13, 2004. On the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a multi-disciplinary eprint archive, which provides OA to most of its contents and priced access to some. (PS: Watson doesn't understand the economic distinctiveness of giveaway literature and falls back on platitudes of his field, economics, that apply best to more conventional sectors of the economy. Moreover, either he or his editor picked a headline making the inane and inaccurate comparison to Napster.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/13/2004 09:57:00 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.
