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Re:Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan by ramblerman on Friday July 03, 2015 @05:07AM (#9824412)
You severely underestimate the ability of the greater community to curate given full access to the information.

Look at stackoverflow, hackernews as simple examples in different fields.

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Re:Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan by return0 on Friday July 03, 2015 @05:43AM (#9824520)
You forget that the "greater community" of scientists already curates these articles for free (the reviewers). It's not the curation that's wrong, it's the closed-access.
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