This webliography by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr., presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. In basic terms, the goal of the open access movement is to make scholarly articles freely available in digital form worldwide with minimal restrictions on their use (e.g., proper attribution of authorship). In reality, it's more complex than this because of differences of opinion about what open access should or shouldn't try to achieve. Some advocates say free access to scholarly articles is enough, minimal restrictions are not needed. Others say that the basic goal is correct, but permanent archiving is also required. Still others say why stop at scholarly articles, make all types of scholarly literature freely available in digital form. Such doctrinal differences are normal and healthy in such an important and dynamic movement. This very brief discussion will focus strictly on digital versions of scholarly articles; however, the reader should understand that digital archives and repositories may contain other types of digital materials. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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