Monday, October 22, 2012
Homework 10/22
Trouble for Elsevier was about workers who were mistreated and were not being paid for their work. The workers eventually boycotted, because they wanted free for taxpayers. The New England Journal is a medical journal with a lot of medical knowledge that is free to taxpayers and they are able to access this at anytime free of charge. The Changing Nature of Knowledge talks about how when it came to knowledge things used to be censored. To me they were thinking about ways to disclose information, because there are so many resources out there besides reading things in books. This is mainly due to the rise in technology. These stories all talk about displaying items to the public. In Elsevier's case it was negative, but they wanted the public to view his work freely. In the New England Journal it was positive because the information was already visible to the public, which is a great thing. The Changing Nature of Knowledge is positive because i feel people are changing their ways of thinking about technology, which today we could not function without. These stories affect me because i am constantly looking up things and if the information was limited i would not be able to do proper research. The Change Knowledge of Nature really affects me because is discusses technology, which i am a big fan of. I feel technology is a great thing because we are able to do so much today they we haven't been able to do in the past.
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I found that the radio information on the different journals was very interesting. I was shocked to find out the outrageous price it cost to have access to these journals. We are very fortunate as college students to have access to these articles for research and other assignments.
ReplyDeleteSo, the piece about Elsevier wasn't about mistreated employees. It's about the way scholarly publishing is set up in general -- researchers do the research and write the articles, and review their peers' articles, all the publishers do is publish the approved articles. But they jack up the price to ridiculous amounts, making it hard for libraries to provide access to the articles the professors at those universities are publishing. They claim price increases are due to increasing costs of production, but in reality they're paying record profits to their shareholders, while hurting the researchers that provide the foundation of their business.
ReplyDeleteBut you're right, they're all about what information is accessible to the public!