[GOAL] Scott Turow vs Everyone

[Eric F. Van de Velde]

This response to Turow's op-ed in the NY Times may be of interest to the
list.

Turow's piece contained an outrageous remark about the unprofitability of
scholarly communication. Most of it was devoted to business developments
that, according to Turow, harm authors.

I respond to most of his points, and I generalize the concept of open
access to public libraries and general literature.

You can find my post here:
http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/turow-vs-everyone.html


You may also be interested in a previous post, which has nothing to do with
OA (so I did not announce it here). It;s about a small incident from long
ago showing how competitive sports corrupts American higher ed:

Calculus for Jocks
http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/calculus-for-jocks.html


--Eric.

http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com

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