What academic publishing can do for science?

By J.J. (Jos) Engelen, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). No abstract. Excerpt: "I am addressing you as a scientist and as the president of a national organization dedicated to fundingresearch. What can we do, what can the scientific community do, to promote and accelerate the transitionto open access publishing? Because that is what I am discussing here. I believe that what academicpublishing can do for science is to adopt open access – while continuing to give the quality assurancementioned earlier – and deploy technologies to improve access and ‘discovery’...."