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17. Fundamental Research and Education
17. Fundamental Research and Education
Pages 125-128
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To satisfy the intent of the supporter of the research, society has to use that information and maximize its use, if possible, to achieve the values of the public good. Historically, the scientific community and the publishing community in the broad sense that is, the private publishers, the professional societies, and government through its own publications always had a symbiotic relationship, as long as paper publishing was the sole outlet for the distribution and archiving of this information.
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If the coordinates were published earlier, then a group of 30 could very easily do the studies much faster and publish in a few weeks something that would take the group of one faculty member and two graduate students several months to do. This is a kind of courtesy within the scientific community that is well accepted.
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We have existing models for pathways that the scientific community can create for itself, such as the ArXiv.org and the Protein Data Base. Professional societies represent a range of models that go all the way from astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists that have moved very much toward open access and public domain all the way to the other pole, to the American Chemical Society, which basically sees its publications as the principal source of its own support and therefore is very protective of its publications.
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I hope that we can recognize and adjust to that before we reach a crisis in which, for example, the scientific community strangles. My own personal hope, optimistic and naive as it may be, is that if we do face these restrictive forms of legislation, then the scientific community will be inventive enough to find its own way to solve its problems and sustain itself independent of those who insist on capturing the real estate and listing databases at the cost of whatever the scientific community might have to pay.
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