[Office-commits] r10045 - trunk/campaigns/pipeline

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Author: www-data
Date: Wed Oct  7 14:40:24 2009
New Revision: 10045

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web commit by holmes

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   trunk/campaigns/pipeline/acawikiblogpost.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/pipeline/acawikiblogpost.mdwn
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 Even though sharing knowledge is one of the most basic principles of science, 
and even though much scientific research is funded by public institutions or 
universities, the vast majority of scientific papers end up in inaccessible 
troves controlled by private journals.  [AcaWiki](http://acawiki.org) is a 
brand new project to change that.
 
-From their announcement: "Currently, it can cost up to $35 to download an 
academic paper—a significant cost, especially because thorough research on any 
topic usually entails downloading many papers. AcaWiki’s approach takes 
advantage of the fact that copyright does not apply to ideas, only to the 
written expression of those ideas. Scholars can thus post summaries of their or 
others’ research online as long as they are not copying verbatim beyond what 
fair-use laws permit."
+From their [announcement](http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:PressRelease-2009-10-07): 
"Currently, it can cost up to $35 to download an academic paper—a significant 
cost, especially because thorough research on any topic usually entails 
downloading many papers. AcaWiki’s approach takes advantage of the fact that 
copyright does not apply to ideas, only to the written expression of those 
ideas. Scholars can thus post summaries of their or others’ research online as 
long as they are not copying verbatim beyond what fair-use laws permit."
 
 In other words, who needs an expensive journal subscription when you can get 
long, meticulously detailed summaries for free?  Summaries can be written by 
any community member with access to the original article, or by the original 
team of researchers themselves.  Even if academics face strong incentives or 
requirements to publish in private journals, nothing in copyright law prohibits 
them from republishing a summary elsewhere.