Comments on: “Generation Open” and Open Access https://ict-pulse.com/2014/10/generation-open-open-access/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=generation-open-open-access&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=generation-open-open-access Discussing ICT, telecommunications and technology Issues from a Caribbean perspective Sat, 08 Apr 2017 01:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kamutula https://ict-pulse.com/2014/10/generation-open-open-access/#comment-171408 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:08:56 +0000 http://www.ict-pulse.com/?p=68964#comment-171408 With regard to academic materials, especially those in paper-based academic journals, what is interesting, if ironic, is that much of that material is in fact written and provided by professors free to the publishers.

Further, subscriptions for such are often bundled up with other, probably irrelevant, publications. In other words, as intermediaries between the writer and the reader, publishers have placed barriers and used them for revenue.

Open access couldn’t come sooner!

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