There is also Access2Research < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research > about free research articles in the Us.
On 2013-01-14 21:06, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org wrote:
Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't progress that much from what it could be.
We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read. We can find videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics behind all this.
The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to do.
Tom
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight and my excitement got the better of me.
This is why I don't work in communications!