{"id":288,"date":"2012-08-28T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-08-29T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:20:40","slug":"peter-suber-free-and-open-berfrois-24-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/08\/28\/peter-suber-free-and-open-berfrois-24-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Suber: Free and Open | berfrois, 24 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We could turn the question around: Why remove any restrictions at all? The answer is to share knowledge and accelerate research. Barrier-free access helps readers find and retrieve the research they need, and helps authors reach readers who can apply, cite and build on their work. Knowledge has always been a \u201cpublic good\u201d in the theoretical sense that consumption doesn\u2019t deplete it (it\u2019s \u201cnonrivalrous\u201d) and consumption is available to all (it\u2019s \u201cnonexcludable\u201d). OA makes knowledge a public good in practice.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berfrois.com\/2012\/08\/peter-suber-opening-access-to-research\/\">Peter Suber: Free and Open | berfrois<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could turn the question around: Why remove any restrictions at all? The answer is to share knowledge and accelerate research. Barrier-free access helps readers find and retrieve the research they need, and helps authors reach readers who can apply, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2012\/08\/28\/peter-suber-free-and-open-berfrois-24-august-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}