Open Access: It's the Right Thing to Do

Here's an article that makes the case for freely sharing academic content. David Wiley suggests freely sharing online can actually increase the sales of academic books but I think the more compelling argument is from Hal Abelson, architect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare movement. When asked what his motivations were for making his work free, he simply said, “It’s the right thing to do.”

Read the article.