Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, September 25, 2001

http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/articles/odlyzko.html

The Public Library of Science and the ongoing revolution in scholarly communication
Andrew Odlyzko, Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota

I enthusiastically support the goal of making scholarly articles easily available on the Internet to everyone, without any fees or other barriers to their use. However, I have not signed the Public Library of Science (PLS) petition. My own contribution to the freeing of scholarly literature has been both to have long lobbied for this through articles and lectures, and to make all my e-prints available for free on my home page, and e-print servers. When discussing copyright transfers to journal publishers, I have also consistently reserved the right to post e-prints on the Web, and urge other scientists to adopt this policy....




 



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