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* Lo vi hace unos meses pero por entonces no me tomaba esto muy en serio :) -afortunadamente he cambiado!!! :DDD bueno, el caso es que lo he vuelto a "ver" en un post de un tipo muy inquieto, Jeremy Hunsinger (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech o su adorable blog - no me digan que la foto de "cabecera" no es maravillosa, uuuhhhmmm!!! si "coloco" una de ese estilo en esta bitácora, se notará mucho el "plagio" :) - too many topics, too little time vaya!!! una vez más encontrarán parecidos razonables entre ésa y esta, que ya es la bitácora de ustedes :) ... pero a lo que vamos::: STSwiki todo lo que puede saber (de momento va creciendo...) sobre Science, Technology and Society y además, podemos participar en su crecimiento!!!

"STS Wiki is a wiki-- a collaborative site that anyone can edit. STS is an interdisciplinary research area called (variously) Science, Technology, and Society, Science and Technology Studies, Science Studies, or (in Spanish) Ciencia, tecnología, y sociedad (CTS). Perhaps best described as a conversation among a variety of disciplines studying science and/or technology, it is one of the fastest-growing research areas worldwide; for example, in the U.S., three new baccalaureate degree programs at major universities were announced in 2004-2005."

* Quién dijo muerte??? vía lista de discusión LITSCI-L (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), The Mutagenic Arts: Adam Zaretsky dentro del monográfico de la revista CIAC's Electronic Magazine, B-i-o+a-r-t (literalmente, el arte más vivo que nunca :)
+ posdata: una revista fascinante, miren porqué!!!

* y por último, vamos con el "regalo" de esta entrada ;) The Access Principle. The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship - John Willinsky -

"Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past -- from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America -- stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story -- online open access publishing by scholarly journals -- and makes a case for open access as a public good.

A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. Open access, argues Willinsky, can benefit both a researcher-author working at the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school.

Willinsky describes different types of access -- the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, grants open access to issues six months after initial publication, and First Monday forgoes a print edition and makes its contents immediately accessible at no cost. He discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and "epistemological vanities." The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world -- and about the future of knowledge.

John Willinsky is Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED and a developer of Open Journals Systems software."

+ texto completo listo para descarga!!! qué hay que hacer? fácil y sencillo...