[Terrapreta] Publications

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Nikolaus,

I'm with you, but I don't see a solution.

Right now the only way of getting around it is through public and  
university libraries.  Some public libraries have a surprising extent  
of free access to scientific journals.  Or if you have a child in  
university (and they trust you enough to share their access code!) or  
you sign up for a course at a local university, you can get even more  
access...

Of course, I don't condone intellectual piracey.  But its interesting  
to note, that when the U.S.A. declared independance in 1776, they  
also abrogated all British patent rights so that our forefathers  
wouldn't have to worry about  such petty bureaucratic details...

Gerrit

On 6-Sep-07, at 11:03 AM, Nikolaus Foidl wrote:

> Dear All!
>
> In the ongoing discussion  there we miss an important point, most  
> of the
> information generated today is paid by public money in form of labs,
> salaries, facilities to do the research and so on. Therefore the  
> obtained
> information and data should be public as well. Now as some greedy  
> companies
> like Elsevier and others or the same universities living mostly on  
> public
> money have high jacked the field of information and sequestered the  
> public
> good to turn it into private income. Its unconceivable to pay for  
> an article
> 30 to 40 US$ again although you already paid with your taxes this  
> product
> before.
> An average literature search is at least 500 to 800 articles( the most
> relevant on the subject you are investigating) and paying again for  
> every
> article this would be a drain of 25.000 to 30.000 US$ per search. I  
> strongly
> disagree with this corrupt praxis of illicit enrichment selling  
> public good.
> This sequestering of public good is a blow against development in  
> science
> because most interested people don't have the recourses to get the  
> needed
> information.
> Shouldn't we fight this praxis of steeling public good?
> Best regards Nikolaus Foidl
>
>
>
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