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

[Stevan Harnad]

No flames, Peter. I said researcher -- not institutionally affiliated researcher.

Researchers are the ones most researcher is written for: to be used,
applied and built upon.

And I also said that health-related research was one of the special exceptions
where public access is indeed desired and needed. 

But health-related research is not representative of most scientific and scholarly 
research. 

Hence it is not reason enough  to induce researchers bother to make their 
research OA (or their institution bother to mandate it).

Maximizing research access for those intended to use and build upon is.

(And no one said anyone was a second class citizen.)

Peace.

On 2012-03-28, at 4:18 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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