Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 2, 2007 4:30 PM EDT
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Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years, the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.

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This is great news for academic researchers beirwin 0 933 Aug 3, 2007 3:32 PM

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