Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger, Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2007. An excellent back-and-forth between Andrew Keen and David Weinberger on the value of the web and Web 2.0. Is the web a low-culture nightmare of amateurs and narcissism or a messy, open opportunity for every kind of culture?
Scholars who expect to find the very best [scholarly journal] literature online, harmlessly cohabiting with crap, are replacing scholars who, despite themselves perhaps, still associate everything online with crap....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/20/2007 04:18:00 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.
