Open access to research, a focus of oalib

After the Aaron Swartz’s suicide, a new order from the White House and legislation introduced in Congress have all drawn attention this year to an issue supporters refer to in short as “Open Access. The policy urges faculty to publish their research work for anyone to see through the Scholar Works system. In order not to do so — for instance, if a faculty member has an eye on a particular prestigious journal that doesn’t allow for open-access publication — faculty must opt out, rather than opting in.

Aaron Swartz, an Internet pioneer and activist, committed suicide in January. He was a co-founder of the social site Reddit and helped develop the feed service RSS, but he also was an advocate for open access — a “militant” one, Greenberg says. At the time of his death, he was being prosecuted by the federal government for allegedly breaking into MIT’s computer network and downloading millions of research articles from an online archive.(From: Matt Erickson)

Open access to research is an important thing to the public, and oalib standing beside open access provides a simple way for users to search for open access scholarly articles. (see www.oalib.com) Moreover you can access to full text of results you find here.