[FRIAM] rank clocks

[Robert Cordingley]

R,

Seems like there are lots of choices: a) you could always try contacting 
the author for a personal copy, b) wait for the full text to be on line 
through your favorite local library on line source (Nature is delayed 12 
months via my library), c) subscribe to Nature to access all their 
articles, d) buy a copy of the magazine at your local news 
agent/bookstore, e) borrow someone else's copy, d) read the copy in the 
library, e) write to your MP, f) invoke freedom of information 
legislation for government funded work to release it, etc...  Of course 
some government funded research should not be published at all.

Building on this... May be as much free information as there is on the 
internet is spoiling us?  What should be free and what should be 
commercial?  Who decides, authors, the Open Content Alliance, someone 
else? See:

http://connect.educause.edu/Brewster_Kahle_Interview_CNI_2005

Robert C

Robert Holmes wrote:

> Did you try to follow the link for the full text? $30!!! Now I know 
> that Nature has to make their money just as much as any of the rest of 
> us, but it galls me that after paying my taxes to fund this particular 
> researcher and his institution I don't get access to the results for 
> free....
>
> R
>
> On 12/4/06, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org <mailto:rec at elf.org>> wrote:
>
>     http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
>
>     The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics
>     in which individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
>
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