[Open-access] New in the Guardian: The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator

Fri Feb 10 13:48:41 UTC 2012

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have a new article in today's Guardian: The parable of the farmers
> and the Teleporting Duplicator
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator
>
> It tries to convey the iniquity of the current publishing systems in a
> rather different way from the more cerebral and reasoned approached
> that we've mostly used, and may be effective in reaching some people
> who are less apt to be persuaded by argument.
>
> Hope it's helpful,
>        -- Mike.
>
> Yes - parables are useful. I have added a comment. And A link to my post
on Elsevier's policy on textmining (
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/10/elsevier-foobar-and-content-mining-%E2%80%93-yet-another-digital-land-grab-%E2%80%93-wake-up-academia-and-fight-or-surrender-for-ever/)

and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/scholarly-pubs-%28%23226%29%20hauessler.pdfwhere
Nature are chargin ONE research group 85,000 USD to do textmining.

No - it's a gloomy day.

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Peter Murray-Rust
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