[lbo-talk] The political consequences of academic paywalls

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 08:31:21 PST 2013


Jordan: "It's not the paywalls that are keeping academic research from having a 'profound political impact' ...

Sure: data wants to be free. But the payoff isn't what was claimed."

[WS:] No disagreement here. However, the main reason I posted this piece is that it speaks to the experiences of some lob-sters who ask 'academically connected" buddies to send them research papers relevant to their activism, because they cannot afford high prices publishers charge for the access. So it is not totally irrelevant.

-- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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