13th October 2008, 05:35 PM
Good to see some robust responses to the 'Professional Mockery' article a couple of issues ago. Had I had the time and inclination I was planning to re-write said article and just change round the emphasis along the lines of x academic has done work in y area and I can't get hold of it etc etc. Pot and kettle. Read Richard Bradleys article from a few years ago on the same subject, which, althouhg much more balanced and understanding, still seems to boil down to the suggestion that commercial work is in some way difficult to get hold of and the archive should be available to everyone the very minute it is finished. How many archives produced by academics are just going to moulder away on shelves until they die, and then just moulder away on someone elses' shelf (the archive, not the academic)? Hurrumph!