[WSIS Edu] Keep science off web, says Royal Society

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

I was indeed shocked when I heard of the stand taken by the Royal Society.
I have heard from two Fellows of the Royal Society that they were not
consulted before the RS made the public announcement. Fellows of the
Society who think that open access is good for science should write to the
President of the Royal Society and request him to issue another statement
stating that the view expressed earlier is not shared by a majority of the
Fellows.

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]


> *Richard Wray
> Friday November 25, 2005
> The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>*
>
> The Royal Society, Britain's national academy of science, yesterday
> joined the debate about so-called open access to scientific research,
> warning that making research freely available on the internet as it is
> published in scientific journals could harm scientific debate.
>
>
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1650512,00.html
>
> --
> Bill McIver
> e-Government / e-Citizen Group
> National Research Council Canada  Institute for Information Technology
> e-mail: bill.mciver at nrc.gc.ca
> http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/r-d/e-government-gouvernement-e_e.html
> http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/r-d/e-government-gouvernement-e_f.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> Edu mailing list
> Edu at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edu
>