Online or Invisible? [Steve Lawrence; NEC Research Institute]. I'll let you digest information about the benefits of open access to scientific literature. First sentence of the article: Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access.
It seems like Starbucks learned this fact long ago -- have stores easily accessible, i.e. have them everywhere and still make money. Why are we scientists still stuck in the Ice Age of literature access? Are the publishers too greedy? Looking at the cold hard facts -- scientific progress will most definitely advance with easier, less cumbersome access. Why isn't the advancement of science the first and foremost priority? Talk amongst yourselves, I'm all vaclempt!
Time is flying by. I can't believe the work is piling on. Got to have an abstract in by tomorrow afternoon, a paper out, and start working on a presentation that I'm scheduled for the end of the month. No fun sitting in the lab Sunday afternoon -- I'd much rather go have fun with my son on this beautiful day.
Posted by johnvu at May 4, 2003 01:19 PM