[Open-access] Harnad's view of the Scholarly Poor

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Stevan Harnad has just published a set of criteria for Open Access in which
he argues that the prime purpose of research is for funded resarches. He
writes http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/2012/04.html

7. Most research is technical, intended to be used and applied by peer
researchers in building further research and applications -- to the
benefit of the general public.

8. But most peer-reviewed research reports themselves are neither
understandable nor of direct interest to the general public as reading
matter.

9. Hence, for most research, "public access to publicly funded
research," is not reason enough for providing OA, nor for mandating
that OA be provided.

I find this totally unacceptable and have written to the list. This
attititude is at the root of many of our problems.

P.


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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