Colleagues,
Biology/ecology could adopt a model like the physicists and develop an
electronic preprint archive like arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). This
provides a way to share research results and ideas -- even those that
have been peer reviewed -- in a moderated fashion without violating
copyrights (as far as I know). For those of us working in
quantitative biology/ecology there is already a "quantitative biology"
subsection available.
Stuart
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Stuart Borrett
Systems Ecology and Ecoinformatics Laboratory
Univeirsty of North Carolina Wilmington
borre...@uncw.edu
http://people.uncw.edu/borretts/
On May 15, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Alexey A Voinov wrote:
This is so much in tune with my previous post that can't resist
sharing it.
Monbiot: "our universities are being turned by the government into
corporate
research departments. No longer may they pursue knowledge for its
own sake: now
the highest ambition to which they must aspire is finding better
ways to make
money... The research councils, which provide 90% of the funding for
academic
research in Britain(1), introduced a new requirement for people
seeking grants:
now they must describe the economic impact of the work they want to
conduct. The
councils define impact as the “demonstrable contribution” that
research can make
to society and the economy(2). But how do you demonstrate the impact
of blue
skies research before it has been conducted?"
Read on...
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/05/12/captive-knowledge/
--
Alexey Voinov
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