Discussion Details
| Title: | Re: Free Sharing of Linguistic Knowledge/Info |
| Submitter: | Henri José Deulofeu |
| Description: | This topic is one of my biggest concerns as I supervise Phd students from
African countries where it is quite impossible to have access to required information and documents for costs reasons. One way to overcome this had been suggested and actually performed by many of us. It consists in putting the drafts - free from copyright - of their research stuff in open access on their websites. An improvement of this step could be that LINGUIST List make available a list of these researchers with perhaps a search tool working on this ''virtual'' data base by key words or so. Another problem is the language used in scientific publishing. A lot of good stuff and useful insights remain unknown to the majority of us because there are not written in English. As a consequence, many papers in English just ''rediscover'' what had been already said in another language. With colleagues from Belgium and Switzerland we are trying to partly meet this point by planning a website containing a ''best of'' of linguistic research written in French with English abstracts. As you can imagine, it is not easy to find money for that. Shouldn't we ask for UNESCO funding to push on this kind of projects? To read the previous threads in this discussion, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1001.html |
| Date Posted: | 24-Mar-2009 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 20.1050 |
| Posted: | 24-Mar-2009 |
