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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Canadian Librarian Leads Worldwide Digital Revolt for Free Knowledge

"Canadian Librarian Leads Worldwide Digital Revolt for Free Knowledge." The Star / Lesley Ciarula Taylor.
Toronto: The Toronto Star Online, August 10th 2010.
"It began when an academic database proposed increasing the fee it charges the University of Prince Edward Island by 120 per cent.
Mark Leggott snapped.
“The world’s knowledge is increasingly being held to ransom and available only to those who can pay the fees,” Leggott told the Star on Tuesday. 
He announced in a campus-wide letter that as chief librarian he had cancelled UPEI’s subscription to Web of Science and was launching “an effort to create a free and open index to the world’s scholarly literature called ‘Knowledge For All’.”