John Holbo on The Valve, in Electra Press – Will Work For Whuffie, part II, urges academics to “get over the paper fetish in the right way“. That way is to become a gift culture on the web.

The groves of academe are well suited to be exemplary Creative Commons. But there is no guarantee they will be. So we should work for that. Of course, there is no danger google is going to render universities obsolete if this opportunity is missed. But universities – which are called that for a reason – were the original world wide webs. They should consider in what ways they can retain that distinction.