[Air-L] open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals

[Peter Timusk]

I note I just went to an open journal site. Looked at the electronic  
journal of probability and found a proof of random walks that are d>2  
to be non returning.

I was supposed to find this proof for class last year. My professor  
thought it was significant although most work on random walks has  
already been done.

I sell random walk art at the same store you buy AOIR swag ay Cafe Press

Here is a cite LAWLER, G., 1996. Cut Times for Simple Random Walk.  
Electronic Journal of Probability, 1, pp. 1-24.


On 8-Feb-08, at 5:09 PM, Christian Nelson wrote:

> Grigori Perelman is but one mathematician. In addition, he is a true
> genius whose accomplishments aren't subject to debate, not least
> because they are in a field where there is little room for debate
> about scholarly accomplishments, so he has little reason to worry
> about his academic stock. To top it all off, he genuinely doesn't
> care about his academic stock, as he demonstrated when he declined to
> accept the Fields medal and did not attend the congress at which it
> was to be given out.
> --Christian Nelson
>
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Gilles Frydman wrote:
>
>> There is an amazing precedent in the field of mathematics publishing,
>> demonstrating that if you build it, they will come!  On their own.
>>
>> Look at the story of Grigori Perelman, who received the Fields Medal
>> (the highest prize in mathematics) for solving the Poincare
>> Conjecture. He published his solution to this 100 years old  
>> problem in
>> 3 articles over an 8-months period in 2002-2003. He specifically
>> published the 3 articles  ONLY on arXiv, the open-access  
>> repository of
>> e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative
>> Biology and Statistics. (for background information on arXiv.org:
>> http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/blurb/)
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