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Open Access To Professional Information, Jim Pitman
Open Access To Professional Information, Jim Pitman
Jim Pitman
This IMS Presidential Address was given at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City, August 2007. There are now two competing business models for scholarly communication: the traditional Gated Access model, supported by library subscriptions, and the Open Access model, supported by some combination of author fees, sponsorship and advertising. IMS has adopted a mixed model by assisting authors to post their work on arXiv, while still retaining journal subscriptions, by allowing all journal content to become open after a suitable delay, and by supporting a mixed portfolio of gated and open journals. Providing access as openly as possible …
Some Peer-To-Peer, Democratically And Voluntarily Produced Thoughts About 'The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom,' By Yochai Benkler, Ann Bartow
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In this review essay, Bartow concludes that The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler is a book well worth reading, but that Benkler still has a bit more work to do before his Grand Unifying Theory of Life, The Internet, and Everything is satisfactorily complete. It isn't enough to concede that the Internet won't benefit everyone. He needs to more thoroughly consider the ways in which the lives of poor people actually worsen when previously accessible information, goods and services are rendered less convenient or completely unattainable by their migration online. Additionally, the …