The Institutional Repository Movement, or, information wants to be jealously clung onto

*The lesson here: if people are devoted to their information, you can't get 'em to give it away for free, even if it costs a ton to hold on to it, and far fewer people will read it.

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Interview With Stevan Harnad

A Prophet Whose Time Has Come

by Richard Poynder

In June 1994, Stevan Harnad, a cognitive scientist at the University of Southampton in the U.K., posted a message on a mailing list that called on fellow researchers to make their...