I'm pleased by this development for two very different reasons. First, the book is out of print but not out of copyright. Scribner's decision to let it become OA was made less painful, but not costless, by a grant from the Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) to support digitization. (It also helped that Scriber's is planning an updated dictionary to be edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz.) Kudos to Scribner's and JHI for this very enlightened and generous policy toward OP books. Second, this book was first published the year I started graduate school. I fell for it hard but couldn't afford to buy it. To gain access to it I'd trek across Evanston to the Northwestern University Library (or Great Expectations bookstore). Finding it OA after all these years is like finding that old friend has moved in next door.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/03/2004 04:03:00 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.
