I support open access
Sep. 22nd, 2012 12:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
When academic journals are charging $20,000 for a subscription, they have become obstacles to knowledge rather than enablers. […] The new age of open access should have us learning from the wisdom of the founders of the United States, who saw copyright as a necessary temporary restriction on access that should last a reasonable period (fourteen years back then, seventy years after the death of the rights holder now) before a work would enter the public domain - a sensible balancing of incentives for creators and the good of an educated, creative public.
--David Weinberger, Too Big to Know (183-85)