[Foundation-l] Black market science

[Ray Saintonge]

On 07/09/11 2:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the 
> amount
> of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a
> difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional
> repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we wikilibrarians
> think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text? I
> clearly remeber the "Screw it" feeling I had the day after I graduated,
> meaning that I would not even touch my thesis again for the next months (and
> so it was).
>
If 5 more minutes of an author's time is too much for uploading a thesis 
that he has worked in for months or years that's his problem. He could 
even pay someone to upload for him.  It suggests he doesn't have much 
faith in his own work.  It's not our job to hold his hand.

Ray