Re:Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to ac...
by twstws on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:49AM
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I suppose, but they are only opening articles that are 70 years old. Which means curiosities like Darwin's geology papers are now available, but you still need to pay for anything remotely current. So it's a nice start, but unlikely to effect their bottom line, or make doing science any easier for anyone outside the first world academy.
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Re:Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to ac...
by retrovirus on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @09:49AM
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Yes, you're right. But it's still a step in the right direction and hopefully others will follow suit. And I am really optimistic, looking at the uber-cool initiatives of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/), MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm), Stanford's OpenClassroom (http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php) and their latest online courses in Machine learning (http://ml-class.org), Artificial Intelligence (http://ai-class.com), and Databases (http://db-class.org).