[LIS-Forum] THES article on research access

Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:07:32 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" Friends: Here is an interesting article by Stevan Harnad in The Times Higher Education Supplement on the need for all scietific and scholarly writings to be available free online. Although he has specifically written about the UK, it is applicable to India and other countries. Librarians and information scientists should mobilise public opinion in their institutions and elsewhere to make free online access to all our research publications a reality. We should talk to our clients (researchers and doctoral students) and policymakers (directors of labs, vice chancellors and heads of departments). Happy reading and best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam ---- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html

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http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/theshort.html

"Why I believe that all UK research output should be online" Stevan Harnad