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CubaMark touches upon a dangerous point in his posting re hot laptops, and I do NOT refer to the danger to reproduction. When he tried to access the British medical journal, The Lancet, he was seemingly denied access. More often, the "ownership" of academic journals is falling into the hands of publishers that want individuals and universities to pay for access. University libraries are increasingly cutting back on their budgets to purchase journal subscriptions. Now, while I support the use of e-journals to save the environment from chemically treated paper, I do not support restricted access to academic journals. I even ran for the editorship of the International Reading Association's e-journal Reading OnLine. The IRA has a membership of 300,000+ persons worldwide, but they maintain a free and open website. This might not worry many of you, but when the academic content in various areas is held in the hands of "for profit" publishers, the whole notion of academic research for the public good is lost. Thus, if I want to write an article and have it published in the Lancet, I lose the copyright to this article, and the likes of Macdoc might never be able to read this article.
It CAN happen here!!!!!!!!!
It CAN happen here!!!!!!!!!