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I suppose, but they are only opening articles that are 70 years old. Which means curiosities like Darwin's geology papers are now available, but you still need
by twstws 15y ago
I suppose, but they are only opening articles that are 70 years old. Which means curiosities like Darwin's geology papers are now available, but you still need to pay for anything remotely current. So it's a nice start, but unlikely to effect their bottom line, or make doing science any easier for anyone outside the first world academy.
- retrovirus 15y agoYes, you're right. But it's still a step in the right direction and hopefully others will follow suit. And I am really optimistic, looking at the uber-cool initiatives of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.khanacademy.org/), MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm), Stanford's OpenClassroom (http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php) and their latest online courses in Machine learning (http://ml-class.org http://ml-class.org), Artificial Intelligence (http://ai-class.com http://ai-class.com), and Databases (http://db-class.org http://db-class.org).