arstechnica.com — Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences have voted to require faculty to make their research publications Open Access. As a result, research produced at Harvard will be available to all comers instead of confined to expensive journals.
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crapmaticFeb 14, 2008
Yay. My tolerance for expensive journals is at a new low thanks to jstor, ingentaconnect, etc filling up Google with cloaked content to their $35 articles.
bigfruitbasketFeb 14, 2008
Let's put it this way--if my doctor needs access to research and can only get it that way, then all the hassle Harvard went through won't be for naught. I may not be able to understand the latest, greatest research, but my doctor can. Have you ever heard of Inter Library Loan? It's usually free in many libraries. Your tax dollars (and mine too) fund research that we as taxpayers have a right to see.
Closed AccountFeb 14, 2008
Harvard's endowment is over 34 billion, actually.
grayn1Feb 15, 2008
I'd like to get your feedback on a different take regarding this proposal. When you read it closer, it is not clear if it really does what everyone thinks it does,but rather may simply be good public relations fodder...check here.
smurfsahoyFeb 16, 2008
Okay, that changes nothing. My objection now simply becomes, "If I were a [university], I sure as hell wouldn't pay you [meaning a journal now] anything [for] a study that people could get for free from [a] university's site. That's just stupid on my part if I do."The point is that journals have no reason to publish anything that is open source. And if enough stuff is open source, they have no reason to exist.
mhmdkhamisJul 3, 2008
I'm not clear on how this is a good thing; all this seems to do is strangle the funding of Scientific societies and risk harming the peer review process. Besides anyone who has ever used the academic search databases we have now (google scholarly isn't one of them according to my professors, sorry) knows they tend to be a bit s**tty now and this is unlikely to improve matters. On the positive side no comments relating this to Ron Paul yet (vomits in mouth a little)<a class="user" href="http://xn--mgba1czbq.xn----ymcae0df5a6fo.com
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