Open Access

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When I was in grad school in the late 90s, not very much scholarly work was on the
web. I had to walk over to the campus library to access scholarly papers, and sometimes
make photocopies of the physical papers I wanted. Things have gotten better, but
it’s still harder to do research than it […]

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When I was in grad school in the late 90s, not very much scholarly work was on the
web. I had to walk over to the campus library to access scholarly papers, and sometimes
make photocopies of the physical papers I wanted.
Things have gotten better, but it’s still harder to do research than it needs to
be. One potential improvement is called Open AccessOpen Access. Open Access is about
making peer-reviewed papers available online where more people can benefit from
them.
This topic has a lot of detailsdetails and nuancesnuances that I’m going to skip
over. Suffice it to say that I support Open Access strongly. Across the nation,
the Open Access movement has been gaining momentummomentumacrossacrossthethenationnation
as well.
Two tidbits crossed my radar screen this week. The first was a piece by Alexander
L. Wolf, president of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). In that piece,
Wolf states “there is a sense among a portion of our community that we have still
not done enough” regarding Open Access. To which I say: *damn straight*.
The ACM is an organization that has and should be focused on the future. I remember
the first time I got to touch and play with a Macintosh computer. It was at a college
ACM event and I was only twelve years old at the time. I still remember the sneaker
demosneaker demo. The fact that the ACM has not done more to embrace the future
and to encourage wider dissemination of research through Open Access is shameful.

Luckily, a piece of much bigger–and happier–news about Open Access also emerged
this week. The Gates Foundation announcedannounced that they will support a strong
Open Access policystrong Open Access policy.
Under the new policy, the Gates Foundation will pay for publication costs, but after
a two-year transition period, the papers must be accessible immediately upon publication.
The underlying data must also be open and accessible. This is critical to help other
researchers verify results.
So while the ACM continues to drag its heels, the Gates Foundation has made a big
move to encourage Open Access. That should make it faster and easier to build on
important research in order to make the world a better place.

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**链接**：

Open Access
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
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details
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/
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nuances
http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss3/3/
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momentum
https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/policies
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across
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/
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the
http://www.princeton.edu/dof/policies/publ/fac/open-access-policy/
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nation
https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ
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sneaker demo
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Cut,_Paste_and_Crash.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Technical&showcomments=1

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announced
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2014/11/Knowledge-is-Power
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strong Open Access policy
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy


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