scholarship

Harvard's recent Open Access publishing mandate makes me think about what it would look like to make a national, interoperable open archive, across all of the libraries, across all the electronic archives, and that took into consideration production as well as consumption in its general business plan. Can't we all get along? (Aphorism for the day: We are all interconnected. You cannot starve one person in the food chain and expect to have a banquet at the end.)

Is knowledge ever free? Are there unseen workers laboring in those fields who are ripped off if we, as consumers, demand free and open access to scholarly journals? We need to be thinking through production as well as consumption in new and interesting ways.