Jason M. Griffey, The Perils of Strong Copyright: The American Library Association and Free Culture, April 2004. A Master's thesis in library science submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Excerpt: "The ALA has thus far gotten away with talking about
Open Access, while actually doing very little from within to follow the tenets themselves....So what steps should be taken in order to rectify this? First, the ALA should begin to open its publications, and find a way to shift costs from a subscription model to an alternative model....The ALA should also have a blanket understanding of copyright, and should allow the author to retain copyright to his or her work."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/07/2004 11:06:00 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.
