On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:
> Some comments on Richard Poynder's interview of Mike Rossner in "Open & > Shut" > http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2012/03/rups-mike-rossner-doing-whats-right.html > > Practically speaking, public access (i.e., free online access to research, > for everyone) includes researcher access (free online access to research > for researchers). > Moreover, free online access to research, for everyone, includes both public > access and researcher access. > > I do not wish to start a flame war on this list, but to distinguish "public" and researcher" is totally unacceptable to me. I have worked as a scientist for 15 years outside academia and I am not a second class citizen. There are many outside academia who are every bit as good scientists as those inside - they pay the taxes which pay research and pay library subscriptions. There are people who would be dead if they could not have read the medical literature - fortuitously because they happened to be employed by a university. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120328/089df41c/attachment.html
