[Air-l] Open access publishing (was a modest proposal)

[Dr. W. Reid Cornwell]

Chris,

Open access with regards to publicly funded research is the "Law." It
includes "all" agencies that fund research including the quasi-governmental
labs like Sandia etc. (excluding those that are covered under official
security restraints)

I presume, we can either get aligned with this process or not get funded.
Traditions be dammed.

I am thrilled that this discussion is taking hold. It is precisely why I
started this thread almost a year ago.

This law preserves the peer reviewing process. I personally am in favor of
scrapping peer review in favor an intellectual community rating system. Peer
review has been used for too long as a mechanism of social control and
exclusion.

I frequently think of Einstein and his travails at recognition until he got
a socially accepted champion.

Reid

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Reid:

This letter was outstanding! It will not win praise from the publishing
industry that believes that it has a divine right to control publishing
in all of its forms (print,video and audio) but it really is a core
democratic ideal that this nation should embrace to spur further
research and to open up the mysterious world of academia to the masses.
I would rather see the public have more access to this, and discuss some
of this content, than the latest Paris or Brittany escapade. My research
speaks to the importance of open source publishing. Google is doing us a
public service on this issue regardless of how some of us may feel about
their other policies.

Chris Heidelberg 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dr. W. Reid
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Provosts Endorse : An Open Letter to the higher education committee

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/other/access/FRPAAletterFinal7-24-06.pdf
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