http://humanist.roua.org/2005/07/30/publicly-funded-copyright/ public thoughts on humans and society: "Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit" Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://humanist.roua.org/2005/07/30/publicly-funded-copyright/#comment-8 Humanist @ roua.org » Blog Archive » open-access Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:46:13 +0000 http://humanist.roua.org/?p=12#comment-8 [...] Some organization (The Royal Society, henceforth TSR) has published a position paper on open-access and it’s nagging me. TSR starts with a slow introduction aiming to put the reader in a kind of open-access state for the ideas that follow (by suggesting they are in the open-access camp, but with some nuances): TSR states that “At present, all papers appearing in Royal Society journals can be accessed free of charge 12 months after their publication”. And the reader should be impressed? I don’t think so. The results published in those papers are funded from which source? Why should the public wait 12 months until the results paid from public funds are available for their reading? I see no reason. Here’s a perspective on copyright and access to publicly funded research results. [...] [...] Some organization (The Royal Society, henceforth TSR) has published a position paper on open-access and it’s nagging me. TSR starts with a slow introduction aiming to put the reader in a kind of open-access state for the ideas that follow (by suggesting they are in the open-access camp, but with some nuances): TSR states that “At present, all papers appearing in Royal Society journals can be accessed free of charge 12 months after their publication”. And the reader should be impressed? I don’t think so. The results published in those papers are funded from which source? Why should the public wait 12 months until the results paid from public funds are available for their reading? I see no reason. Here’s a perspective on copyright and access to publicly funded research results. [...]

]]> http://humanist.roua.org/2005/07/30/publicly-funded-copyright/#comment-5 Humanist @ roua.org » Blog Archive » semantic libraries Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:38:45 +0000 http://humanist.roua.org/?p=12#comment-5 [...] For the legacy documents, available in physical form and waiting to be digitized, I have some comments related to their copyright. [...] [...] For the legacy documents, available in physical form and waiting to be digitized, I have some comments related to their copyright. [...]

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