David Gerard wrote:

(courtesy Mathias Schindler)

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,462845,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012501... http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html

Now, is there anything WMF can do to advocate free content? Is that political or entirely in accordance with our goals? Or what can individuals do?

This is a somewhat different fight, since *neither* side in the open-access debate is advocating free content. The argument is over whether journal issues and/or archives should be available fee-free on the internet, or should require a subscription fee---but neither side is advocating that the articles should become any form of free content.

It is vaguely in line with our goals, though, since we can more easily research for our own articles if the primary and secondary literature is more widely and freely available.

-Mark