This is all interesting, and I for one wouldn't mind if you continued to post it here - flisters' varying careers and interests are how we learn more about the world! - but I understand wanting to keep it organizedI separately, too.
I remember when that aspect of the Patriot Act was revealed. Gaaah. I feel lucky that although the university watches what happens on our work computers, there are no net controls and they don't make judgments based on the content of searches. I *think* in the interest of academic freedom, they understand that all kinds of information might be accessed for a wide variety of legitimate academic and research purposes. But if we did our work in the library? The government wouldn't have to be so understanding.
Open Access - would this mean that eventually, full versions of academic articles and papers could be read by anyone, not just people with access through a university that subscribes to the proper database?
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Date: 2009-03-21 04:43 pm (UTC)I remember when that aspect of the Patriot Act was revealed. Gaaah. I feel lucky that although the university watches what happens on our work computers, there are no net controls and they don't make judgments based on the content of searches. I *think* in the interest of academic freedom, they understand that all kinds of information might be accessed for a wide variety of legitimate academic and research purposes. But if we did our work in the library? The government wouldn't have to be so understanding.
Open Access - would this mean that eventually, full versions of academic articles and papers could be read by anyone, not just people with access through a university that subscribes to the proper database?