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Posted on September 17, 2011 by Alex Holcombe
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Posted on September 17, 2011 by Alex Holcombe
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Posted on September 22, 2011 by Alex Holcombe
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Posted on September 20, 2011 by Alex Holcombe
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Text by Alex Holcombe; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
Down with the knowledge monopolists! Extremist rhetoric but valid basic point: Publishers reap large profits on the backs of academics volunteering their time.
6 things researchers need to know about open access A tutorial by Peter Suber

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The easiest thing... is simply not volunteering our labor to lock academic writing away from the public -Nick Montfort
This is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access -Danah Boyd
I will not submit my academic writings to journals whose policies prevent me from continuing to make them available, free of charge -Terrance Tomkow
Academic publications should be available for the world to read, to learn from, to build upon -Ben Adida
Editors and editorial boards are not indentured servants. If the publishers will not price reasonably, why not resign, or better yet start a nonprofi t journal with the same constituency but a new name?-Ted Bergstrom
The least we should expect is that the outputs of this tax-payer funded activity should be freely available to all.-Martin Weller It is hard to understand why we should continue to give the research away to commercial publishers and then buy it back at an enormous price.-JP Conley & M Wooders The countries we work with can’t afford journals; they’re already paying an arm and a leg for textbooks.-Sir John Daniel The academic community is only hurting itself, and its long term public support, by keeping its knowledge behind high subscription walls-Andrew Carr
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