On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 3:09 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
<nope> > You prevent the use of > material in academic papers.
Nope. Academic papers could be released under free licenses (there is currently an ongoing argument over the matter.
Also, the Public Library of Science [1], perhaps the most significant of the open access publishers [2], adopted CC-BY for all their journals. In addition, my university recently dedicated a special pot of funds to cover page charges for authors who would like to publish in open access journals. In general, I think most academics view open access as a good thing. The free content movement is definitely compatible with academic publishing though the nature of that publishing may change some.
-Robert Rohde
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science [2] - http://www.doaj.org/