Dear Peter and Chris
The right of access to scientific information also played a role in the
decision of the Swiss Federal Court in the Case ETHZ vs Elsevier, Springer and
Thieme in regards of the document delivery service at the ETHZ.
Fascinating
We have been thinking we might try to pull together the issues regarding
images in science, and perhaps we could weave the two themes together in
that paper?
Paddy
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Donat Agosti ago...@amnh.org wrote:
Dear Peter and Chris
The right of access to
Thanks Chris, this is very interesting and I look forward to reading your
future blogs on reconciling access to knowledge with authors rights.
I've found the following article to be a good exploration of discussions on
the normative content of the 'right to enjoy the benefits of scientific
Thanks for the message, Peter, and for the interesting links: there's
nothing new under the sun! I found a couple of your examples so interesting
that I propose to dust them off and re-use them - with full credit to you,
of course.
At this point, I don't see what I am doing as campaigning for
Completely support you Chris. I blogged about this 3-4 years back but got
little take-up
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/30/access-to-scientific-publications-should-be-a-fundamental-right/
reported later...
Thanks for this comment, Jenny, and for sharing the link to Farida
Shaheed's Report on The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress
and its applications. She makes some interesting points regarding the
right of access to scientific (and cultural) knowledge, and notes that
governments are
