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Scarcity damages dissemination of knowledge

Here are two graphical illustrations of the process of dissemination of knowledge.

From the point of view of the author/researcher it looks like this:

s_race

From the point of view of those seeking knowledge it looks like this:

Brain_2

Then, obviously, from the point of view of the researcher  SCARCITY is a very bad idea.

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  1. December 29, 2012 at 10:30 pm | #1

    Many mapping to one, one mapping to many. It just depends what end one is looking through. ;-)

  2. December 29, 2012 at 10:44 pm | #2

    Yes, nowadays brains are scarce and ideas (copies of publications) aplenty. Inadvertently I found a justification for gold open access: it sells reader brains to authors.

  3. December 30, 2012 at 12:08 am | #3

    LOL! Cheaply?

  4. December 30, 2012 at 12:30 pm | #4

    Not cheap at all! After more thinking, it looks that they are charging the authors for a kind of ellaborate courtship (that’s the peer-review process), instead of letting them to beat one another to death for getting the scarce brain-time prize.

  1. January 9, 2013 at 11:12 am | #1

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