[BOAI] Re: [GOAL] {Disarmed} Clarification of the new OA policy from the RCUK

[Julia Bolton Holloway]

This was the paragraph in question relevant to BOAI from the article at 
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/2012820102749246453.html on 
the current hiring of adjunct professors:

In addition to teaching, academics conduct research and publish, but 
they are not paid for this work either. Instead, all proceeds go to 
for-profit academic publishers, who block academic articles from the 
public through exorbitant download and subscription fees, making 
millions for themselves in the process. If authors want to make their 
research public, they have to pay the publisher an average of $3000 per 
article. Without an institutional affiliation, an academic cannot access 
scholarly research without paying, even for articles written by the 
scholar itself.

It is certainly this retired professor but continuing scholar's lament 
amidst primary sources who has put all her research on line herself in 
order to share it with other scholars globally but who cannot access 
even review articles of her own published books or references to her 
articles in others' articles. It is an abuse and unjust exploitation by 
commercial others of one's copyright (copyleft) and intellectual property.


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