Now-a-days I'd say science is a profession tailored to the economy. — Moliere
As a starting place maybe it'd be nice if public libraries had access to academic journals. — Moliere
Would it not be the other way round? The economy being tailored to science. — Sir2u
You can get a lot of information from academic journals on the web, but not the ones that contain the information that is moving the economy.
But the question there is, how many people would actually be interested in reading them? Not too many i believe. — Sir2u
One of the reasons I thought to start the discussion was the hash out various meanings of "science". — Moliere
Care to say more? — Moliere
And due to budgetary reasons public libraries don't invest in such things because they are prohibitively expensive and the interest is low. — Moliere
But it seems fair. Why block knowledge? Isn't that a good thing for the public in a democracy? — Moliere
How would you define it? — Sir2u
I think of science as the process of acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge being the result of scientific examination and experimentation. — Sir2u
That is why knowledge is so well kept by the industries that succeed in gaining it, it is bloody expensive to maintain the labs and funded universities that do the research.
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