Imagine scanning the barcode of a printed book with your cell phone and then running a search, from the phone, of a digital copy of the same book. You can now do that with a Google Android phone --at least for books already scanned by Google and showing their barcodes.
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.
