Reid: I am a producer/director by trade and by graduate school training, but I chose higher education doctorate because I am utilizing convergence as part of my job working on the Internet team for a large federal agency as a producer/podcaster. I realize that in order for me to engage in public education campaigns as I have done for 17 years that I would need a PhD in higher education to understand the nuances of higher education. One of the things that I have quickly discovered is that research universities have created much of communications technology that has created convergence (Internet, numerous software packages etc.) but has resisted until recently using full convergence in the form of interactive games, simulation models, role plays and audio/visual in all disciplines. I think that multi-media and publishing education should be mandatory because I understand and have utilized the power of mass marketing to accomplish stated objectives. I believe that if people are informed and taught about how media impacts their disciplines and their lives they will be fore-armed to resist mindless dribble when it comes from right or the left. What most people fail to realize is that academia is the last defense for civil liberties and corporate control in this nation and the world at large. If research universities do not wake up in a hurry, they will literally become wholly owned subsidiaries of the government or corporate America. The Academy must work for the people first by providing brainpower to the government and corporate America in an ethical fashion. It is clear that old model is outdated and must be changed. We keep blaming these young people for not learning what we want them to learn when it is clear to me that there are elitist individuals who want to keep people ill-informed and tragically igorant. Why else would a democratic nation experience continuously poor voter turnouts? I think open access would be the beginning of the end for many of the Wizards who are hidding behind the curtain with the knowledge. Bravo my friend for your insistence that academia stand for spreading knowledge! -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dr. W. Reid Cornwell Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:30 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Open access publishing (was a modest proposal) Chris, Open access with regards to publicly funded research is the "Law." It includes "all" agencies that fund research including the quasi-governmental labs like Sandia etc. (excluding those that are covered under official security restraints) I presume, we can either get aligned with this process or not get funded. Traditions be dammed. I am thrilled that this discussion is taking hold. It is precisely why I started this thread almost a year ago. This law preserves the peer reviewing process. I personally am in favor of scrapping peer review in favor an intellectual community rating system. Peer review has been used for too long as a mechanism of social control and exclusion. I frequently think of Einstein and his travails at recognition until he got a socially accepted champion. Reid -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Heidelberg, Chris Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:06 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; wrc@tcfir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Open access publishing (was a modest proposal) Reid: This letter was outstanding! It will not win praise from the publishing industry that believes that it has a divine right to control publishing in all of its forms (print,video and audio) but it really is a core democratic ideal that this nation should embrace to spur further research and to open up the mysterious world of academia to the masses. I would rather see the public have more access to this, and discuss some of this content, than the latest Paris or Brittany escapade. My research speaks to the importance of open source publishing. Google is doing us a public service on this issue regardless of how some of us may feel about their other policies. Chris Heidelberg -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Dr. W. Reid Cornwell Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:09 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Open access publishing (was a modest proposal) Provosts Endorse : An Open Letter to the higher education committee http://www.arl.org/info/frn/other/access/FRPAAletterFinal7-24-06.pdf ________________________________ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. 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