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Freeing users to take full advantage of research Philip E. Bourne, J. Lynn Fink, and Mark Gerstein, Open Access: Taking Full Advantage of the Content, PLoS Computational Biology, March 28, 2008. An editorial. Excerpt:
Comment. Exactly. We will not unleash the full power and utility of OA research until we go beyond the removal of price barriers to the removal of permission barriers. The greatest promise of OA is to free up creative people to make creative uses of research. It was precisely to support these creative uses that the BOAI called for more than the freedom to read research articles without charge, but also permission to "download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Update. Also see Chris Leonard's comments at the PhysMath Central blog. |