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Here's a better idea...and one that will ultimately benefit libraries as well: start buying out all the evil academic publishers, overhaul their technology, get
by saosebastiao 9y ago
Here's a better idea...and one that will ultimately benefit libraries as well: start buying out all the evil academic publishers, overhaul their technology, get rid of copyright assignment, and offer free access to anyone.
Then do the same with legal records, although that is more of a legal problem than a money problem.
- _rpd 9y agoEven a modest level of support for high quality peer review of open access journals would have a big effect.
- zanny 9y agoThis is something I like. Correcting broken laws would be one of the more permanent contributions Bezos could make. We already know from the last ~30 years we cannot amass political capital to fix laws that create the broken journalistic and legal frameworks.