Response to George: Open Access --- George, that's a great addition I haven't thought about, when we concluded on our findings and found patterns of actions that aimed for access. It was more in the sense of: someone wants to get access to e.g. natural resources (like a volcano, the Arctic etc.) to do research on sediments, to do core drilling , to investigate into specimen etc.). And this requires diplomatic actions in the first place, including solving issues of extracting data from regions/populations abroad (I could ramble on here).

Another question you raise with regard to the open access movement in science should be discussed by us on Friday. I find many threads in this discussion to be very superficial and too bróad to make sense when concretely applied. I'll explain on Friday...

Source author: Tim Flink tim.flink@hu-berlin.de