Michael Feldstein, Open Access, Furl, and Course Packs, e-Literate, October 29, 2004. Excerpt: "I just took a quick look at The Learner's Library. As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows: [1] LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright. [2] There’s a search interface to that collection that includes what appears at first glance to be pretty decent natural language search. [3] Searches return results including an appropriate excerpt, a full, formatted citation, and a link to the full text of the article. [4] Professors can assemble 'course packs' of articles, essentially Furling the collection for one-click access by students. I bet we could assemble equivalent service for open access journals using free, loosely-coupled pieces." (Thanks to the Jill O'Neill on the NFAIS Information Community News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/02/2004 04:40:00 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.
