Cannot resist the comedic irony I just think of. "Tear down this pay wall, or otherwise I will buy a cheap access acount from Taobao!"
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Benj. Mako Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > <quote who="Richard Jensen" date="Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:30:13PM -0600"> > > that's a bad idea--it will destroy the financial base of thousands > > of journals and throw the whole science community into turmoil for > > years as the main quality control system --peer review--is > > destroyed. > > If the result of that turmoil is that tax-payers get access to the > research they funded and that the product of scientific knowledge is > increasing accessible without pay-walls and fees that create > roadblocks and exacerbate existing inequalities, I am willing to put > up with a little turmoil. > > There are already thriving open access journals in many fields and > plenty of reasons to believe that peer review is not at risk. But even > if we had no idea *how* things would work out, let's not let a lack of > imagination keep us from standing up for something that is > right. Access to scientific knowledge is deeply important -- and a key > part of why Wikipedia exists today. Just as Wikipedia has does in the > area of reference works -- and lets not pretend Wikipedia growth has > been without turmoil -- let's *make* it possible. > > Regards, > Mako > > > -- > Benjamin Mako Hill > [email protected] > http://mako.cc/ > > Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far > as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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