Declan Butler, France takes on Google in scanning race, Nature 434, 425 (24 March 2005). (Access restricted to subscribers.) A news article reports on Chirac's call for digitizing French libraries a la Google, and includes speculation, particularly from Brewster Kahle, on whether competition in this arena would be healthy for public domain access to scholarly works.
Posted by
Garrett at 3/23/2005 02:49:00 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.
