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Interview with CyberLeninka’s Chief Strategy Officer

RICHARD POYNDER, 17th January 2016

Mighty Crawfish

Пока рак на горе не свистнет, мужик не перекрестится

While open access was not conceivable until the emergence of the Internet (and thus could be viewed as just a natural development of the network) the “OA movement” primarily grew out of a conviction that scholarly publishers have been exploiting the research community, not least by constantly increasing journal subscriptions. It was for this reason that the movement was initially driven by librarians.

OA advocates reasoned that while the research community freely contributes the content in scholarly journals, and freely peer reviews that content, publishers then sell it back to research institutions at ever more extortionate prices, at levels in fact that have made it increasingly difficult for research institutions to provide faculty members with access to all the research they need to do their jobs.

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«Санкции» и наука: 42% элитных российских научных журналов принадлежат США

Поводом для данной заметки стала небольшая, практически незаметная новость об ограничении доступа к Open Source и онлайн-образованию для стран, находящихся с США в «натянутых» отношениях.

Нижепредставленная информация сама по себе далеко не нова (дата выхода статьи — 2008 год), но, на наш взгляд, именно сейчас настал хороший момент для того, чтобы еще раз обратить внимание на эту проблему.

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