Open Access as Humanitarian Aid: In Times of Disaster and Every Day

"We seem to refuse the idea of constant open access to research as we would hold on to a pillow in a nightmarish town as imagined by Dylan Thomas....“We need research to be as useful as possible every day, in routine circumstances, and not just in times of disaster,” Peter Suber explains. “The “we” here are not just researchers but everyone who depends on research. The stakes are not always elevated by earthquake and tsunami, but they are elevated by illness, climate change, environmental degradation, species extinction, unsafe technologies, unsolved problems, and uninformed policies.” ..."