A Question of Access: SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing
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In the pre-millennial fervor of late 1999, Gutenberg and his invention, the printing press, topped nearly every list of pioneers and projects that changed the course of history. Aside from technological innovation, Gutenberg is remembered because he gave people the gift of access to others' ideas and the vehicle to disseminate their own. Once literacy shifted from the monastery to the mainstream, the world of ideas opened up to an audience that has always wanted to learn as much as it could as fast as it could.
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- D-Lib Magazine
دوره 6 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2000