The Invisible Technician… : DASH Story 2013-05-28
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I work at Universidad de Chile, Chile. Even being the biggest and one of Chilean universities with more resources, usually we have limited access to articles due to limited budgets for libraries and virtual subscriptions. (As illustrations, my colleagues of smaller universities from Chilean provinces usually ask me to download or get articles because in their cases they do not have *any* systematic subscription to journals). Another facet of this problem: I am in an Engineering School, thus usually have access for technical articles in my field. Buy usually paid subscriptions work for restricted areas, thus I have little access to paid journals and articles from other fields, particularly social sciences of interest to us (e.g. STS).
Open access policies have open us literally a world of opportunities and access to knowledge.
And many professors among us are at your disposal to impulse these initiatives world-wide. Please, just let us know how we could help in this great initiative.
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