Sunday, October 15, 2006

Do Academics Have an Ethical Obligation to Publish in Open Access Venues?

Do Academics Have an Ethical Obligation to Publish in Open Access Venues?
by LAWRENCE SOLUM
Legal Theory Blog, publication date: 13 October 2006
"The open-access imperative can be grounded on at least three ideas: (1) the idea that scholarship and the emergence of truth is an intrinsic telic good--an end worth pursuing for its own sake; (2) the idea that the creations of new ideas (a special form of information) is a public good in the economist's sense (because ideas have external social benefits and ideas cannot be rationed through price mechanisms); and (3) the idea that the fundamental moral equality of persons supports the maximization of access on reasonable terms of all persons to the realm of scholarly ideas."

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