[GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

[Thomas Krichel]

  Jean-Claude Guédon writes

> The right way to go is OA free for authors and for readers, which means that
> it must be subsidized. But that is all right because scientific research is
> subsidized and scientific communication is an integral part of scientific
> research (and it costs only 1% of the rest of research).

  Research is done to generate visibility for the researcher. As such it
  has advertising value. Therefore OA is the right way to organise it.

  At some stage, universities and other research intensive institutions
  will release that visibility is not only gained from doing but also
  from storing, organising, and reviewing it. Libraries ought to have
  pressed that case a long time ago.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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