Open Access NewsNews from the open access movement Jump to navigation |
|||
Larry Page on unlocking scientific knowledge Stefanie Olsen, Google's Page urges scientists to market themselves, News.com, February 17, 2007. On a talk by Google co-founder Larry Page at the AAAS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, February 15-19, 2007). Excerpt:
PS: Google supports OA by indexing the contents of OA repositories and journals and, in a different way, by digitizing public-domain books for free online reading (even if not full OA). I have a dozen serious ideas if it wants to do more. I've raised some of these ideas with the Google Corporation and the Google Foundation in the past and would be delighted to take them further. Update. See Matt Cockerill's post on the BMC blog, listing three things that "Google could do to improve the communication of scientific research":
|