Scientific knowledge is as much about culture as education
One in four Americans doesn’t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but this says much more about culture than it does about education
Occam's Corner / The Guardian.
One in four Americans doesn’t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but this says much more about culture than it does about education
Occam's Corner / The Guardian.
But just how much pressure is there for academic research to become open access? One source of pressure causing trends toward open access is boycotting, most notably and recently involving Elsevier, the largest scientific publishing company in the world.