Friday, May 13, 2005

i DARE

Dutch universities have banded together to provide digital free access to publications by academics in these universities. Given that the Netherlands is also the land of Elsevier, poster-child for commercial journal price-gouging, it seems only appropriate that this initiative is called DARE.

The spoof-meter does start moving towards the red zone when you read lines like this (from the English version of the website):
  • DAREnet gives digital access to academic research output in the Netherlands. It is accessible from home but also from both North and South Pole.
  • The top of the bill, the cream on the cake can be found through Cream of Science.
Maybe it's just one of those things lost in translation.

(HT: The Register, via /.)
Posted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at 5/13/2005 12:12:00 PM

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5/14/2005 01:14:00 PM

    NOT lost in translation. That's what it says, but The Dutch have peculiar ways of expressing themselves; I can attest because I am an expat living and studying in the Netherlands. Nevertheless DARE was news to me, despite being affiliated with 3 major universities here, so they aren't doing a great job of publicizing their pursuits. 

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