I think this is a very valuable initiative, especially because open access helps to encourage academic work and life from the South.

What me makes somewhat sceptical is that all this e-text archives fail to make effective use of the facilities of hypertext. Okay, it's an archive and doesn't pretend to be something else, but I would prefer to have a mutually linked corpus of real hypertexts in the web and not a big store of pdf-files or whatever. What I mean is: I do not want a web where links does only exist in a link section. I do want a web that is serious about the special facilities of the medium. And hypertext would be much more than loading up the text which I've published yesterday in The Monist. It would be a text situated in and linked to the lively context of relevant discussions about its content. So hypertext opens up lots of paths for a networked way of thinking.

M.W.