RE: Economist article

["Adam Hodgkin" <adam.hodgkin@xrefer.com>]

One may agree that the demos should not, and will not, be put into the
academy. But that does not mean that the demos should be formally excluded
from the academy. Permitting those in the demos who need to or want to
read research results is an indubitable benefit for the academy.

Ramanujan should be considered for the role of patron saint of open
access......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Ramanujan is a heroic almost fairy tale example, creeping with minimal
'free' gleanings over the precarious threshold of Victorian/Imperial
scholarly publishing/teaching; but there are many small-scale examples of
the benefits of Open Access, for which the founders of all scientific and
scholarly societies will have sympathy

Who knows how widespread the interest in science and scholarship would be
if all primary research was OA?

How many mute inglorious Miltons and Ramanujans have there been?

Adam Hodgkin