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40hz:
Sounds lovely but then I see this text on it

"Images may not be copied or offloaded, and the images and their texts may not be published. All digital images of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are © Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford. The papyri themselves are owned by the Egypt Exploration Society, London. All rights reserved."

So... we help them decypher it all and then they own it all, and will they charge the rest of the academic and scholarly world to access it? It would make me far more likely to give a bit of time if there was some form of open science commitment.. but no, it will be published in paid for series
-iphigenie (September 23, 2012, 05:18 AM)
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You have to admire their gall.

But we're easy to dupe. Most of us still think of schools as being created for the public sharing and dissemination of knowledge - and not the public and semi-private for-profit corporations (in all but name) so many have become.

iphigenie:
Scientific publishing doesn't make lots of money - I worked in it, I know. The cost of publishing, on or offline, massive amounts of content that is only of interest to a tiny minority just doesn't.

WHat makes money are derivatives - bibliographical databases (at least they used to make money, nowadays I am not so sure), financial derivatives. I remember that the finance department was one of the big profit centres in one of the ones I worked with - playing with options, advances, and currency FX

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