[kictanet] Open Access Publications

[Brian Muhia]

An organisation like Gates Foundation has goals that benefit greatly when
they have as many publishing mechanisms as possible. I look at it from a
game-theoretic perspective. If, as a high-status funding source, they can
send a signal to scientists that their work will have no other barrier to
access than access to the Internet, then whatever is published there is
signal in favour of the idea that scientists and students from all walks of
life will get to learn without any unnecessary costs.

Publishers like Elsevier have a strange business model that involves taking
a product paid for by taxpayers (or donors), taking the volunteer work of
reviewers, and charging the future students of the resulting knowledge a
high price. It's a huge bottleneck contributing to a slow growth of the
number of self-motivated research-oriented students all over the world.

The Gates Foundation's initiative will be very beneficial to everyone.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, 06:39 Martin Gicheru via kictanet, <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Interesting choice of news source. Onto the topic, I wonder, do they limit
the number of publications they can publish on, thus meaning if they limit
themselves to some that don't have open access they'd disadvantage
themselves?

Regards,
Martin Gicheru

On 15 Jan 2017 22:30, "Phares Kariuki via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-research-can-t-be-published-in-top-journals-1.21299

Interesting development

--
Phares

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