@ccess: #scholarlypoor: Craig Dylke, teacher and artist

“Mike Taylor has done an awesome – truly awesome – job in pulling together our ideas and hope for the @ccess movement – the imperative to make scholarship available for the #scholarlyporr. Those are the people who don’t have access to a University library... Mike’s been interviewing the scholarly poor. I’ve done an interview... just because I’m at a rich university doesn’t mean I can use the electronic library as I want to. My research is stalled because the publishers forbid it. Everyone is scholarly poor when it comes to text-, data- and image-mining... What’s tremendous is the stories that are emerging. And I get the impression from Mike that he’s got a number yet to be published...” [The remainder of the post is devoted to the story of a paleo-artist and educator who advocates for open access]