If you're curious how difficult it is for the University of Michigan to determine the copyright status of the books Google is digitizing from its library, see John Wilkin's slide presentation at the Reading 2.0 conference yesterday. Or see William Walsh's useful digest of the presentation, excerpting the key points from the most relevant slides.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/18/2006 12:14:00 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.
