http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/25/james-boyle-on-keeping-public-science-open-to-the-public/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/25/james-boyle-on-keeping-public-science-open-to-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-41373 Mirek Sopek Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:42:40 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=7895#comment-41373 I read James Boyle article and indeed it horrified me.
Being geographically quite far from US Congress, I did not hear before Conyers bill.
Your post opens our eyes to the facts we know – science community, that helped to bring web to its current state of grace – is still far away from the openness and transparence. This is huge paradox, but while scientific articles and findings published there ARE in public domain – the free access to them is blocked by commercial strongholds of publishers.
How crazy I was recently going to Journal of Physical Chemistry website, to find that one of the articles I co-authored in the past … costs 30$ to read !!
Over a couple of months I was pondering why Semantic Web does not grow as it should/could ? Maybe, there are other reasons, maybe. But until science, which, by design, IS in public DOMAIN, is not public SPACE of the web – we should forget about our dreams about Semantic Web – and, in essence, about getting Web into the next round of thrilling development.
And – last but not least – if it is important for you guys in US – how far more important it is for us in so-called Central & Eastern Europe. “We toppled the system (ONLY 20 years ago), but we still carry its genes” – and if open science does not help us – we may forget about the real growth….
Thanks David, for this post …
Mirek

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