Sarah Gauch, At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain Digital Life, New York Times, March 4, 2004 (free registration required). Greek Orthodox monks are digitizing and providing OA to 3,300 manuscripts (1.8 million pages of fragile and deteriorating paper) housed at the sixth-century Monastery of St. Catherine in Mount Sinai, Egypt.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/12/2004 10:13:00 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.
