For an excellent overview of the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) movement check out this interview with Peter Suber, author of the FOS newsletter. While the article doesn't go into a lot of depth, you could spend the rest of the afternoon following links to FOS discussion and software. Suber also makes an important point: it's not so much that publishers are preventing free online scholarship - "we could do it without them." Rather, according to Suber, "The more we succeed, however, the more we can expect them to follow suit or lower their prices. Our goal is to create open access, not to put anyone out of business, though we know that success will put competitive pressure on many existing publishers."
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