[BOAI] The Guardian > Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers | Stephen Curry

Tuesday 10 April 2012
Research that is funded by the public should be freely available to all – a move to open access modes of publication is overdue.
As a scientist and citizen I want to see the universal adoption of the open access model of academic publishing, because it will be better for science and better for society.
Open access, where costs are met upfront by the author and papers are free to readers, would improve science by making all published results and ideas easily accessible to researchers across the world and so fuel the engine of discovery. At present, far too much of our research is locked behind paywalls that restrict access and stall progress.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/10/science-open-access-publishing

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011

http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/

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