'Cost of Knowledge' and 'Quality of Knowledge': Looking towards Future
Ganesh Kumar Agrawal, Randeep Rakwal, and Abhijit Sarkar International Journal of Life Sciences ISSN No. 2091-0525
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'Cost of Knowledge' and 'Quality of Knowledge': Looking towards Future 1
Ganesh Kumar Agrawal ,Randeep Rakwal
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2,
, and Abhijit Sarkar *
1 Editor - in - Chief, International journal of Life Sciences. 2 Editor - in - Chief, International journal of Life Sciences. 3 Executive Editor, International journal of Life Sciences.
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” - Margaret Fuller Science and Society has been complementing each other since the day we started our journey towards civilization. Society generates resource, necessity, and stimulation for Science - to invent; and, on the other side, Science generates 'information' and / or 'knowledge', and guides society towards further development. Though, linguists have not yet reached any consensus on the difference, if any, between the term - 'knowledge' and 'information'. Still, most of them consider information to be just “a flow of messages”, whereas knowledge is based on information and justified by one's belief. Still, there are different opinions too. A group of researchers working on the flow of information systems tend to use “knowledge” to suggest that there is value and uniqueness in examining 'knowledge management system' (abbreviated as KMS) compared to the traditional information systems. Many researchers use the terms knowledge and information interchangeably, emphasizing that there is not much practical utility in distinguishing knowledge from information in knowledge sharing research or KMS (Wang and Noe, 2010). Now, in a true sense, knowledge is a critical organizational resource that provides a sustainable competitive advantage in a competitive and dynamic society. As one knowledge-centered activity, knowledge sharing or KMS is the fundamental means through which we can better contribute to knowledge application, innovation, and ultimately the competitive advantage of the society.
publications, like – journals, books, periodicals, magazines, are responsible for broadcasting that knowledge worldwide. Till date, most of the scientific research works are performed on the government grant money, raised by the common tax payers. So, it is quite obvious that every common man should access the knowledge resources developed on their money. However, most of the popular scientific publishers don't let them to access freely. So, for the common man, open access publications have huge importance. Though, in past few years, introduction of huge number of open access journals have raised the question on the 'quality of knowledge' and authenticity of knowledge. International Journal of Life Sciences always advocate the open access policy, but not on the cost of 'quality of knowledge'. We plan to continue improving the journal and request the contributors /readers to send their opinions / comments to the Executive Editor at any time they wish. Thank you and good reading.
The initiation of open access publication in modern day science also aims the same towards a better competitive and collaborative approach for the ultimate development of present day society. Scientists are generating huge information and knowledge at their laboratories or respective fields every day, and scientific * Editorial correspondence to: Abhijit Sarkar, International Journal of Life Sciences, Research Laboratory of Biotechnology and Biochemistry (RLABB), Kathmandu, NEPAL. E mail:
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