Hi Stevan, I just tried to post a message to the list. I have closely been following your work over the past several months and find it fascinating. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how Yahoo! can potentially help in encouraging open-access.
I work in the Yahoo! Search group and one of our most important principles is comprehensiveness, ensuring that our search indices are as deep and rich as possible. On Tuesday, we announced a major new program to work with both commercial and non-commercial content providers. Especially for the latter, we feel that it is increasingly important to ensure that users get access to the vast content in the public domain. We announced partnerships with the Library of Congress, NPR, the National Science Digital Library, and six other high-quality content providers in the not-for-profit space. We are also interested in the open-access movement and learning about ways that we can remove barriers to content and knowledge on the Web. If there are several major sources of self-archived journal collections in the "deep Web", we might be interested in making sure that content is adequately represented in our search indices. Here is a press release of our announcement: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040302/25391_1.html I would love to hear feedback from each of you and learn more about the open-access movement. Best, Sumir Meghani Manager, Business Development Yahoo! Search 408.349.7774 [email protected]
