Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Movement of DRM-free Academic Journals in UK

According to BBC, DRM-free academic journals movement is taking action in UK, for reforming the British Library. It will give a great change for users. The concept of reformation is to make the library become the center of shared resources of UK.
By the way, what is DRM? It is the abbreviation of the Digital Right Management, means controlling the idea of sharing intellectual property (ex. music, journals, articles).
Since all academic journals at the British Library have DRM, people cannot use them effectively without visiting there. Of course, users in other countries have the same difficulty.
The movement is to supply the DRM-free copies of these journals through using the computer network. Therefore, other small libraries will be able to have these and share with their visitors. Visitors will be able to get more information than ever before. In some way, people in overseas will also able to be blessed with the movement!

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