1. Serials Review, Vol. 30 No. 4 (2004). I want to thank my wife, Frances K. Groen, for having helped me write this article in legible English, and for some precious suggestions.
2. See http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml.
3. See http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html.
4. John Willinsky,The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
5. See, for example, Robert K. Merton,On Social Structure and Science, ed. Piotr Sztompa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).