We can only hope that this will raise the bar for more academics to consider the consequences of supporting restrictive academic publications systems. As one from a developed country yet living and working in developing countries I can tell you first hand that the barriers to accessing academic materials is a very real and harmful divide. There are many academic barriers to work on including those that established organizations, knowingly or not, create when accepting funds from entities that support closed access. The way that workshops are organized in that they restrict participation and thus thought interchange to elite insiders and so many more barriers we must fight.
Thanks for posting on this crucial issue Cable, hope we can all do our part to educate others to not support closed information publishers and to not support organizations that support restricted exchange of information. Cheers Tim __________________________________ j. Tim Denny, Ph.D. Consultant - International Development, Education and ICT SKYPE - jtdenny Googletalk - denny.jt http://www.linkedin.com/in/jtdenny https://www.avuedigitalservices.com/VR/id130765695 ..... While SAT scores might predict your success in the classroom, beyond a basic level of intelligence your passion, motivation, initiative, networking and hustle matter more than your grade-point average. Dale Stephens founder of UnCollege.org https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=esi2y0whdhk52&utm_source=txemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=referral On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, <wikieducator@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics > > - Elsevier's Genomics associate editor resigns, will devote himself to > open access <#1375dbddfce7f834_group_thread_0> [1 Update] > > Elsevier's Genomics associate editor resigns, will devote himself to > open access<http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/7dfc4d195ebe9ab9> > > Cable Green <ca...@creativecommons.org> May 17 11:05AM -0700 > > "I can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to > research" > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/16/system-profit-access-research > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group > wikieducator. > You can post via email <wikieducator@googlegroups.com>. > To unsubscribe from this group, > send<wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>an empty message. > For more options, > visit<http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics>this group. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
