Raizel Liebler, End of Fair Use E-reserves?Library Law Blog, May 24, 2005. A good summay of the case for e-reserves and the recent threats to them. Excerpt: 'It would be a shame if using this technological option would preclude applying fair use analysis to e-reserves in the future. For many on-campus students, using e-reserves is a convenience -- but for online students, such as the LEEP library school program at the University of Illinois, they are often a necessity to receive required reading materials. As professors and librarians have worked together to make e-reserves available to students, hopefully these two powerful groups can continue to ensure students are able to use e-reserves. Strong educational fair use arguments can be made, particularly when e-reserves are used by professors to offer spontaneous, current reading and when the copies are behind firewalls with password-only use.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/25/2005 08:55:00 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.
