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A world where knowledge is locked behind several $200/year paywalls is better than a world where knowledge is locked behind a greater number of $X,000/year payw
by jacoblyles 15y ago
A world where knowledge is locked behind several $200/year paywalls is better than a world where knowledge is locked behind a greater number of $X,000/year paywalls. But it is not nearly as desirable as the kind of world we could have if everybody could link to, index, share, and discuss academic articles on the open web.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoAgreed entirely. Personally, I agree strongly with USENIX, which makes all their work publically available, and which requires only a simple grant of permission from authors, not a copyright assignment.
- scott_s 15y agoI agree with that. But you're only looking at them in terms of the price of the paywalls. That misses the point that the ACM and IEEE are organizations that the members can convince to do otherwise. That is not true with Elsevier.