Columbia Study: University Students Gravitate to Electronic Resources, a short, unsigned news story in today's Library Journal. Excerpt: "The issue, ultimately, is getting search engines to be able to access deeper collections, as new projects by Yahoo and Google emerge. 'We'll see the current generation we accuse of doing research in their pajamas develop highly sophisticated searching strategies to find high quality information on the web,' Abby Smith, director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources, told the Times. 'It's this transition period we're in, when not all high-quality information is available on the web--that's what we lament.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/29/2004 10:24:00 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.
