[Taxacom] Fwd: open access

[Michael Heads]

‘If you look at less wealthy countries like low and middle income
countries,  they really really struggle to get access and so that’s a real
impediment that prevents researchers in those countries from being able to
either contribute or do world class research’. So if you charge thousands
of US dollars to publish one paper that will help them contribute?



‘Even with  my brother starting the public library of science...’ – so no
conflict of interest there then...


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:

> Here is a splendid clip on open access, well worth to spend a couple of
> minutes
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY#t=170
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> Enjoy, and think about what it means for our domain
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> Donat
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