In Whose Interest?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. [Comment] [Edit] [Delete] [Spam]Scott Jaschik[Edit][Delete]: In Whose Interest?, Inside Higher Ed [Edit][Delete] June 15, 2006
I think this is a very good question. As the article notes, scholarly groups in the U.S. are lining up against legislation that would require open access to publicly funded research within six months of publication. Why this opposition? Open access, if it helps anyone, helps the reserachers these groups represent. So why are these groups opposed? My view echoes Peter Suber's. "[He] said that these criticisms showed that the anthropology association (and others like it) have a conflict of interest. More...