Lisa Guernsey, Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom, New York Times, October 16, 2003 (free registration required). A good peek at the state of the art. (PS: It will always be easier to apply these tools to free online texts than to priced and password-protected texts, unless the tools are hobbled from birth and limited to certain proprietary collections. In the long run there will be a wide array of competing open-source packages with different strengths for different purposes. By making research conclusions in open-access texts stand out from the heap, and connecting them to related open-access research, they will create important incentives to make work openly accessible. If you're a programmer, you can help the cause by creating tools that process open-access texts. If you're a scholar, don't fail to put your work in the open where it is eligible for processing by these tools.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2003 09:18:00 AM.
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.
