When Laura Willeford went to Powell Library to research a paper last week, she left feeling frustrated. Willeford, a first-year undeclared student, said she had trouble finding useful sources for her art history paper....With groups like the University of California, the Open Content Alliance and Google continually digitizing new books, soon students like Willeford will be able to complete most of their research online at any time of the day. The goal of these programs is to create an online searchable database of non-copyrighted books that students can read from the comfort of their dorm rooms....The California Digital Library will be able to digitize between 18,000 and 80,000 books this year, and those numbers will only grow in the future, [Daniel] Greenstein said.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/07/2006 12:04:00 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.
