[Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

[Etienne Beaule]

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 at 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 at 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!
>