The State of Florida is providing free online access for every citizen in the state to the Florida Electronic Library, a collection of OA and licensed resources. For details, see the special report in yesterday's Sun-Herald. (Thanks to LIS News.)
(PS: I'd like to think that Florida policy-makers adopted this good idea because it was a good idea. But the front page of the Florida Electronic Library features photographs of the governor and secretary of state, suggesting that part of the idea was to advertise themselves to a captive audience.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/25/2005 09:00:00 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.
