Find a good example of the "science business" described above and analyse it as a potential factor in the Digital Divide discussed earlier. Is the proposed connection likely or not? Blog your opinion.
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"You may have access for free through an institution."
It looks like just a bad JOKE. but it is reality. You can access journals from JSTORE for free throw some institutions. What does it mean? At first some institution, for example your university/library have to buy access to this electronic database. And it is not free. It is even "quite" expensive. So in fact it means, that "free" access can legally have just members of relatively rich universities and institutions. Education is mostly paid by governments, therefore real access in this database have just people from relatively rich countries... It is pure example of the "science business", and of course this practise of creating an artificial scarcity conduce to deepening of digital divide and enriching of few institutions in first world.
For me is more interesting than practise of "science business" the ways how to "go around" and how to paralyze this practise. So there is list of few respectable examples. Academical sources available online, project of open university, sharing documents, educational slides, books without copyright, google videos and different warez/pirate projects of sharing of books. In fact all the pirate and warez movement... and sharing at all... has also social dimension and therefore this activity is illegal but legitimate way to decrease digital divide.
Czech sociological review free availabel online.
Open university
Sharing of documents
Sharing of slides
Books without copyrigt - project Gutenberg
Pirate sharing of the books - project Gigapedia
Google books and google scholar - full view
The list of reasons, why use Creative Commnos 0 for teachers and creators of educational content.
CC0 - no restriction licence - simillar to public domain.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Map of access to open access journal server - Of course most of the access are from places where is many computers/computer users... But if we can compare with access to EBSCO or JSTOR (or similar database) - i am pretty sure, that there would be much lesser accesses at all and especially in "poor" countries.
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