Open Scholarship means Better Science

"The systematic retrieval and analysis of articles is critical to modern science. It is only possible with “gold”. It is forbidden by contract to use machines to read subscriptions to many major publishers, who – dog-in-the-manger-like – stop us innovating but do none themselves – these publishers do a huge disservice to science for the benefit of their shareholders and CEO’s incomes. The hybrid journals (where some articles are Open Access) and useless for systematic study as it is impossible to know which articles can be used for which purpose. The use of “green” publishing (where authors self-archive in repositories or web pages) is irrelevant as it is impossible to discover these publications systematically. For example it is impossible to answer the question "find me all green-published articles in synthetic chemistry".