[Insight-users] AcaWiki uses free software--and a free software approach--to liberate scientific research

[Luis Ibanez]

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/acawiki

" AcaWiki uses free software--and a free software approach--to
liberate scientific research

Submitted by root. on 2009-10-08 05:38 PM. Community

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AcaWiki is a promising new project to build a body of scientific
knowledge that is free to use, study, improve, and redistribute.
Instead of waiting for journals to make papers more available, they're
building a free equivalent that will be just as useful.

Even though sharing knowledge is one of the most basic principles of
science, and even though much scientific research is funded by public
institutions or universities, the vast majority of scientific papers
end up in inaccessible troves controlled by private journals. AcaWiki
is a brand new project to change that, using free sotfware and with
freely licensed contributions.