| Actually I misunderstood how the author of that blog read the papers necessary to help his son (I read the story a while back). Here is another link from his blog:
http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/ And under the section called "A regret: Not pushing for open-access" he says: "My hope is that tenure will provide me opportunities to steadily shift computer science and medicine toward high-quality, high-impact open access venues. The reason I feel especially ashamed over my behavior is that in the course of my research for my son, I have used my privilege as an academic to punch through paywalls with impunity to reach medical papers. In a damning irony, even this paper is behind a paywall. I realize that few patients or parents have the ability to do what I did, and they never will, until all of academic medicine goes open access. In computer science, academic paywalls stifle. In medicine, academic paywalls kill." I suppose the main point still stands. |