The access principle
by John Willinsky · first published 2005
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"Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past - from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America - stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals - and makes a case for open access as a public good."--Jacket.
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Similarly, an interesting review of a book critical of the status-quo in academia (The Access Principle, by John Willinsky): http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html It seems that journals (and textbook publishers) give the authors of intellectual works prestige and bragging rights in return…
on “Nature rejects double-blind peer review - how corrupt is academia?” ↗…Elsevier. Many of us have already pledged never again to review for or submit to those publishers, at least until they fundamentally change their practices. For more about this, see my review of "The Access Principle": https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html As the next step, we should break free even of society journals, insofar as they put research results behind a paywall. Everything---certainly if…
on “I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA” ↗