Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told [The Chron­i­cle of Higher Education]

Here is the link: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Open-Access-to-Research-Is/8475/

From “Library Link of the Day” Octo­ber 19th.

ArXiv, the physics open repository, is men­tioned as the excep­tion, and even this doesn’t get all of the papers  researchers should, or would want to see.  The Direc­tor of the Max Planck Insti­tute for Grav­i­ta­tional Physics, says that the U.S. lags way behind Europe and other countries.

On a more hope­ful note, the Johns Hop­kins Data Con­ser­vancy project Direc­tor, Say­eed Choud­hury, envi­sions a time when huge amounts of data will be avail­able to researchers everywhere.

An Asso­ci­a­tion of Research Libraries panel admits that progess is slow-going, but will come to pass.