Beth Flanningan, Libraries join fight for greater research access, Georgia State University Villager, March 23, 2004. Flannigan reports on initiatives at GSU, including the libraries' scholarly communication issues website, opting for inexpensive journal subscriptions, and moving towards centralized online repositories of the university's intellectual output, especially theses. University librarian Charlene Hurt is quoted: Libraries are becoming quite militant about (fighting the rising prices of journals) ... We've been trying to solve this problem on an individual basis for around 10 years, and it isn't working. The real impact here is going to be on the less well-established scholars, particularly students. They’re the ones who aren't going to have access to published knowledge because they can’t afford it.
Posted by
Garrett at 4/02/2004 03:12:00 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.
