open access to research - Oxford Blog
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"[E]very time someone hits a "this article will cost you $35" web page and (as they mostly will) gives up, that's a deadweight loss (as the economists call it) and a setback, however small, for human scientific and intellectual progress. My initial exposure to copyright and patent issues came through free software, but for me the arguments for open access research and science are actually more compelling...."