More and more public or famous institutions take all their publications or reports to the digital world. Thus we have many news from the European Union or the Vatican that are uploading their most secret or unknown documents to the Internet to get them for free and be able to enjoy them through our eReader, mobile or computer.
The institution that has recently undertaken such a project is NASA , the world's most famous space agency, but also the one with the fewest publicly available documents and research . Until now.
NASA has recently launched a public website where anyone, anywhere in the world, can access its research from years past, from the moon landing to the latest information on Titan. Everything is available for free on PubSpace , the name of the website.
PubSpace will be one of NASA's websites for free information and publications
The task ahead for NASA is enormous and will take a long time, but we can already obtain more than 850 titles , a catalog that will be expanded little by little, although some research, especially that which is active, will not be published until its completion or some time later.
This news about NASA reminds us that institutions are gradually becoming more open to the world, making their documentation more accessible online. Similarly, the European Union recently announced that 2020 was the target year for all its documentation to be digitized and published on its official website for anyone to use.
And there's always a solution for every problem. While in other countries digitization is considered an obligation, in Spain we still have gaps and institutions that refuse to publish certain documents, something illogical but representative of a part of Spain; fortunately, that part is getting smaller and smaller , don't you think?