Re: [WikiEducator] Digest for wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[j. Tim Denny]

We can only hope that this will raise the bar for more academics to consider the consequences of supporting restrictive academic publications systems.   As  one from a developed country  yet living and working in developing countries I can tell you first hand that the barriers to accessing academic materials is a very real and harmful divide.  There are many academic barriers to work on including those that established organizations, knowingly or not, create when accepting funds from entities that support closed access.  The way that workshops are organized in that they restrict participation and thus thought interchange to elite insiders and so many more barriers we must fight.   

Thanks for posting on this crucial issue Cable,  hope we can all do our part to educate others to not support closed information publishers and to not support organizations that support restricted exchange of information.  

Cheers

Tim
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, <wikied...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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• Elsevier's Genomics associate editor resigns, will devote himself to open access [1 Update]

 Elsevier's Genomics associate editor resigns, will devote himself to open access

Cable Green <ca...@creativecommons.org> May 17 11:05AM -0700  

"I can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to research"
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/16/system-profit-access-research


 

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