“Open Don’t Mean Free”: A Reflection on the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Publishing Research via Open Access
Earlier this year, the British government approached Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, to assist in making “taxpayer-funded academic research more widely available online.” The logic behind this decision was two-fold: like Wikipedia, open access (OA) publishing can translate into distributing resear...
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Iowa State University Digital Press
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication |
| Online Access: | https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/12677/ |