the area in question however is based aorund original research which we don't deal with much.
Open content is open content. It doesn't really matter what area of open content we're talking about.
Can't use free content if it doesn't exist and in this case it does not. Mind you in the short term I feel that that article is as effetive as anything we could create.
The best way to get free content created is to show that it would get used, and the best way to do that is to use other free content.