9th April 2010, 12:55 PM
BAJR Wrote:Indeed the most hated words I see...
So while free access to Grey Literature is desired and complained about... free access to academic articles and research is costly..
level playing field? OR should academics and the public be charged for access to grey lit, with a percentage going to to the developer and the Contractor? }
Not only is the 'grey literature' actually quite easy to access (via a trip to the HER, unit that produced it, or even record office/museum once it has been archived) and typically free, at the HER it is even linked to a GIS and so can be searched for more easily! How fantastic would it be if there was a GIS providing the location and details of every academically published piece of information (where suitable)? To some extect there already is, the HER, but that won't include things that it doesn't know about.
For academics to make complaints about the current system seems absolutely incredible.