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

Mon Sep 11 12:32:09 PDT 2006

Reid:

I am a producer/director by trade and by graduate school training, but I
chose higher education doctorate because I am utilizing convergence as
part of my job working on the Internet team for a large federal agency
as a producer/podcaster. I realize that in order for me to engage in
public education campaigns as I have done for 17 years that I would need
a PhD in higher education to understand the nuances of higher education.
One of the things that I have quickly discovered is that research
universities have created much of communications technology that has
created convergence (Internet, numerous software packages etc.) but has
resisted until recently using full convergence in the form of
interactive games, simulation models, role plays and audio/visual in all
disciplines. I think that multi-media and publishing education should be
mandatory because I understand and have utilized the power of mass
marketing to accomplish stated objectives. I believe that if people are
informed and taught about how media impacts their disciplines and their
lives they will be fore-armed to resist mindless dribble when it comes
from right or the left. 

What most people fail to realize is that academia is the last defense
for civil liberties and corporate control in this nation and the world
at large. If research universities do not wake up in a hurry, they will
literally become wholly owned subsidiaries of the government or
corporate America. The Academy must work for the people first by
providing brainpower to the government and corporate America in an
ethical fashion. It is clear that old model is outdated and must be
changed. We keep blaming these young people for not learning what we
want them to learn when it is clear to me that there are elitist
individuals who want to keep people ill-informed and tragically igorant.
Why else would a democratic nation experience continuously poor voter
turnouts? I think open access would be the beginning of the end for many
of the Wizards who are hidding behind the curtain with the knowledge.
Bravo my friend for your insistence that academia stand for spreading
knowledge!

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dr. W. Reid
Cornwell
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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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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Heidelberg, Chris
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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
Cornwell
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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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Dr. W. Reid Cornwell
The Center For Internet Research
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