“Influential left-wing ideas” (or issues, or initiatives)

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Good influences....Not influential enough....Related to openness, the free flow of ideas embodied in the open access movement, enabled by CreativeCommons which fractured the binary all or nothing approach to authors’ rights, and allowed them to decide how they wanted to make their work available. There is a growing number of reputable non-commercial publication channels such as the Open Humanities Press (another major vector of left-wing thinking and amplifying some of the individuals I know Bob feels have too much influence on the left – but, those individuals aside, a model of how academic publishing should be). Now there is nothing to stop the world’s scholars publishing gratis and libre open access, and offering their ideas to a hungry world. However most continue to publish commercially for readers of means, often without self-archiving...."

Link:

http://fleshisgrass.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/influential-left-wing-ideas-or-issues-or-initiatives/

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Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:14

Date published:

12/27/2010, 23:37