[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

[Jan Velterop]

Strict logic is not what we win the battle for open access with. Some celebrity involvement is to be welcomed. On a visceral level the success of Wikipedia (not a logical outcome at the outset on the basis of the premises) may well influence the perception of open access.

Jan Velterop

On 2 May 2012, at 11:00, Andrew A. Adams wrote:

> 
>>    "The [UK] government has drafted in the Wikipedia founder Jimmy
>>    Wales to help make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain
>>    available online to anyone who wants to read or use it."
> 
> I was hoping that the new government might be less star-struck than the 
> previous one. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, it would seem. We really 
> don't need Jimmy Wales advising on this. The team behind eprints has been 
> (with minimal funding) developing the technology needed for many years and 
> there are many academics in the UK much better versed in the intricacies of 
> UK academic work and life than Mr Wales. Sigh. I foresee another lost couple 
> of years wasted on this instead of getting to grips with the known problem 
> and the known solution (including providing better funding for eprints 
> development to the team that created it and still does the software 
> engineering for it).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
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