[GOAL] Re: Why "Public Access" vs. "Research Access" Matters

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> Some comments on Richard Poynder's interview of Mike Rossner in "Open &
> Shut"
> http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2012/03/rups-mike-rossner-doing-whats-right.html
>
> Practically speaking, public access (i.e., free online access to research,
> for everyone) includes researcher access (free online access to research
> for researchers).
>

Moreover, free online access to research, for everyone, includes both public
> access and researcher access.
>
> I do not wish to start a flame war on this list, but to distinguish
"public" and researcher" is totally unacceptable to me. I have worked as a
scientist for 15 years outside academia and I am not a second class
citizen. There are many outside academia who are every bit as good
scientists as those inside - they pay the taxes which pay research and pay
library subscriptions.

There are people who would be dead if they could not have read the medical
literature - fortuitously because they happened to be employed by a
university.

P.

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