Adam Penenberg, Searching for the New York Times, July 14, 2004. The visibility of NYT is reduced by its low ranking in Google. This in turn is due to its required registration and toll-access back-run. "It's not like the Times reaps a whole lot from its Web archive. The archive accounts for only 2 to 3 percent of the profit for its digital division....In fact, New York Times Digital earns most of its money from a pre-existing agreement with Lexis-Nexis, which brings in more than $20 million a year....So it's no surprise that Times management has no plans to completely open up its archive....[Says Aaron Schwartz:] 'A far more sensible position for the Times would be to charge for new news, not old news. Can you imagine the possibilities if it opened up its archive?' "
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.
