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Two Open Access Books on Open Access
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2006-04-17 01:20:29
           ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

John Willinsky's (2005) excellent book on Open Access is
now 
available Open Access. Its only short-coming is that it
makes 
absolutely no mention of its predecessor, the first book on
Open 
Access, edited by Okerson & O'Donnell (1995), published
over a 
decade earlier:

     Okerson, A.S. & O'Donnell, J.J. (1995) (Eds.)
Scholarly
     Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for
     Electronic Publishing.  Association of Research
Libraries.
     http:/
/www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/intro.html

     Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case
     for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press
     http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/ebook.a
sp?ttype=2&tid=10611
     https://mitpress.mit.edu/b
ooks/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf


Stevan Harnad

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