Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Continuing our Panel Discussion: How can you write an open access encyclopedia in a closed access world? - Meta

"I was glad to join a panel discussion last week at the Wikimedia Foundation organized by Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies, which was inspired by a debate between Michael Eisen, a founding member of the Open Access Publishing movement, and Jake Orlowitz of the Wikipedia Library. Below is an elaboration of many of the points I was glad to insert into this conversation.  I also highly recommend to anyone new to the Open Access world, as I am, a close reading of Peter Suber's book, Open Access, now available on an open access basis from MIT Press ..."

I have been delighted to see Jake Orlowitz and others move forward with finding ways for the Foundation to provide members of the Wikimedia community access to otherwise restricted content ..."