Larry Jacobs, The Closing of the 'Open Society'?ABC News, September 17, 2004. An interview with Rick Blum of OpenTheGovernment.org (OTG) on increasing government secrecy and decreasing OA to government information. Quoting Blum: "The public is using the Internet and relying upon the Internet to get information they need to make critical decisions to protect their families, to protect their communities. And we're seeing the government remove more information from government Web sites out of concerns, they say, for national security. That really hurts the democratic process and it hurts citizens' ability to make the decisions that they need to protect their families." Also see Blum's report for OTG, Secrecy Report Card: Quantitative Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/18/2004 09:12:00 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.
