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Bennett Haselton writes
"The U.S. government recently announced that academic papers on federally-funded research should become freely available online within one year of publication in a journal.
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Scooped by Ana Cristina Pratas |
Scoop.it!
Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
Around the time of the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz, who lobbied tirelessly for free access to academic articles (in his sometimes grey-hat manner, which ultimately got him in trouble), I admitted to some friends that I didn't understand how this became a problem. Why aren't all journal articles free, all the time?
I don't mean that I didn't know why the journal publishers charged exorbitant fees for their subscriptions. If academic researchers have to have access to journal articles in order to do their jobs, then you can expect the journals to gouge academic libraries on the prices. What I didn't understand was: Why do academics even publish in journals that demand exclusive publishing rights for their work, and then charge readers huge fees to read it?
Όπως επισημαίνει η κ. Pratas είναι οξύμωρο να ένα ακαδημαικός ερευνητής να παραχωρεί τα πενευματικά δικαιώματα και παραλλήλα να πρέπει να πληρώνει μυθικά ποσά για κάποια άρθρα.
Προφανώς ο Aaron Swartz συνεχίζει να επηρρεάζει τον τρόπο που σκεφτόμαστε.