Jeffrey Young, Libraries Aim to Widen Google's Eyes, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2004 (access limited to subscribers). Excerpt: "Experts say the reason for the sudden interest in academic content by search-engine makers is simple: competition. Google's addition of features to its search tool coincides with the initial public stock offering for which it filed last month. Microsoft has announced plans to build a new search engine of its own, and Yahoo has renewed its focus on searching, making search engines the latest tech-industry battleground. These search engines are now in competition for quality content' rather than just quantity in their search results, says Herbert Van de Sompel, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory who has designed software to help search engines find academic materials."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/17/2004 08:31:00 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.
