Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) is leading a group of senators in urging the Library of Congress to provide more information through THOMAS for the general public. The senators want the public to have access to the Legislative Information System, a souped-up version of THOMAS currently available only to members of Congress. For more details, see Randall Edwards' story in Federal Computer Week or the table comparing LIS and THOMAS created by the Project on Government Oversight. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/26/2003 09:04:00 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.
