John Wilbanks, On Science Publishing

"We need, in short, to think beyond the idea of knowledge as paper. We need to think about its consumption, not just its production. Yet the shift to digital hasn’t brought us digital library access on the web, but rather the opposite. It’s harder and harder to read the knowledge without a user name and a password. The end result is that, compared with the realm of culture, it’s hard to be an innovator for scientific knowledge. There are too many hoops to jump through, from access to copyright law to economics. And this is why, nearly 20 years after the invention of the web by a scientist, the web functions far better for culture than for science...."