Lawrence Lo wrote:
Academic journals, thousands of them. If free access to
all knowledge
is our goal, freeing the journals is a major step towards there. I
don't know what Open access or Wikiversity might impact the process of
knowledge generation in the future, but I know the academy was/is the
most important part in the process. Though I wonder if a million
dollars is enough :P
Most of this is probably more relevant to Wikisource than Wikiversity.
Wikiversity needs to develop effective ways to use the material rather
than just accumulate the stuff.
Another thing I have in mind, albeit maybe off-topic,
is the
digitization public domain works. Not only text (which is what Project
Gutenberg is doing), but books, documents, photos, paintings,
pictures, recordings etc. Forget about copyrighted stuff, there are a
lot of goodies without copyright but I can't access them simply
because I am not sitting next to them.
The mass of available out-of-copyright material is certainly worth
doing, but that is a manpower rather than a copyright problem. I would
add archival ephemera to this.
Ec