SubscribeTechnical Libraries – Tear Down The Walls!
Published by cornelius on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Technology.I just read an interesting article at the AdaptivePath homepage. The comment is about technical libraries, for example the Association of Computing Machines (ACM) Digital Library, and why they charge for research work that is often publicly sponsored and provided to them for free. If you think of research as sharing and exploring ideas as publicly as possible, their methods seem very contradictory. Supporting Open Access should be a main goal of every researcher. Why not getting a little bit more feedback than locking the work into proprietary databases?
Just some days ago a friend ask me if I could order with my credit card (having one is not common under German students) a paper about risk-based testing. This was about $30 and it was from 2000. Why should a student pay 30 bucks for maybe two sentences that could be useful for his research paper? No, our university library had no access to this database. Luckily, I found after some searching a similar paper from the author with 90% overlap and for free.
These methods move me away from serious research at universities.
My 2cents,
Cornelius.
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