Ab’s Blog

I had heard of E-LIS but forgot about it. From the site:

E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is community-owned and community-driven. We serve LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.

If you publish, consider putting a copy of your pre-print (or post-print) into E-LIS so that everyone can have access.

John Willinsky of the University of British Columbia has written a book, The Access Priniciple, on open access, digital publishing, and scholarly communication and made the whole darn thing available for download at the MIT Press website.

If you, like me, have been meaning to read up on open access, this looks like a good place to go.

if:book has a lengthy review.