Everton, Um yes, this is interesting, but what does it mean practically? I noticed Harvard also said it wants to save 3.75 million dollars annually by cancelling its academic journal subscriptions. But what are the ramifications? How do you academically "publish" for open access? I love Wikipedia, but Wikipedia pages will never fill the same purpose as articles in academic journals. There needs to be a place like Wikisource where one can "publish" open access publications after some sort of peer review or general editting process, so that students (and their professors) can use these in the way they use academic books today.
Or am I thinking too much from the academic standpoint and do we really need to "turn education upside down" and teach our children in the "Khan academy" way?
Jane
2013/1/22, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org:
Interesting.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Leavitt alexleavitt@gmail.com Date: 2013/1/22 Subject: [FC-discuss] Publishing Open Access... Only. To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular discuss@freeculture.org
Hey everyone,
Today I've made an important personal announcement: I've decided to only publish in open-access academic publications. Even after years of being in this group, it was still difficult to come to this decision, but I'm glad I've finally reached it. You can, and I encourage you to, read more about my thoughts here -- http://alexleavitt.com/oa/ -- and if you feel inclined, please share it with colleagues and your respective networks.
Thanks, Alex
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