i remember that 20 years ago (I'm sure more), the Open Access movement (OA) began with a focus on remove the pricing barriers on paid academic journals. Around the same time, academic researchers I knew started putting their research papers on their own websites for free. The whole idea behind Open Access is to make... Continue Reading →
Open Access is a huge area of research and practice in information management. As the words suggest, this area deals with making resources available and easily accessible to everyone who wants them. It is all about unrestricted access. Most of the open access efforts reside in academia which is where these initiatives began in 2001... Continue Reading →
