This response to Turow's op-ed in the NY Times may be of interest to the list.
Turow's piece contained an outrageous remark about the unprofitability of scholarly communication. Most of it was devoted to business developments that, according to Turow, harm authors. I respond to most of his points, and I generalize the concept of open access to public libraries and general literature. You can find my post here: http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/turow-vs-everyone.html You may also be interested in a previous post, which has nothing to do with OA (so I did not announce it here). It;s about a small incident from long ago showing how competitive sports corrupts American higher ed: Calculus for Jocks http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/calculus-for-jocks.html --Eric. http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com Google Voice: (626) 898-5415 Telephone: (626) 376-5415 Skype: efvandevelde -- Twitter: @evdvelde E-mail: eric.f.vandeve...@gmail.com
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