Strict logic is not what we win the battle for open access with. Some celebrity involvement is to be welcomed. On a visceral level the success of Wikipedia (not a logical outcome at the outset on the basis of the premises) may well influence the perception of open access.
Jan Velterop On 2 May 2012, at 11:00, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > >> "The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy >> Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain >> available online to anyone who wants to read or use it." > > I was hoping that the new government might be less star-struck than the > previous one. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, it would seem. We really > don't need Jimmy Wales advising on this. The team behind eprints has been > (with minimal funding) developing the technology needed for many years and > there are many academics in the UK much better versed in the intricacies of > UK academic work and life than Mr Wales. Sigh. I foresee another lost couple > of years wasted on this instead of getting to grips with the known problem > and the known solution (including providing better funding for eprints > development to the team that created it and still does the software > engineering for it). > > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
