On 1 February 2012 17:12, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> wrote:
> could you perhaps elaborate how exactly the Free Knowledge would benifit > from boycotting non-OA journals? (Not meant sarcastic, I really want to > know) > Also, how would you imagine such support? I could imagine that with any > support by Wikimedia for a boycott, people would assume automatically that > we would start blocking citations of said journals. Or are you thinking > about that Wikimedia related scholars are asked to public Open Access? (I > could imagine this is already the case) I can't see this flying. If the most evil person in the world publishes a work that it's appropriate to cite in an educational article, then we cite it. Elsevier are a giant sucking vampire tick on science and knowledge itself, and if we were looking for an enemy they'd be an excellent candidate, but there's lots more evil people out there. But, as Gwern suggests, papers by researchers who have joined the boycott would be fertile ground for new content for the projects. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
