Open Access and Glacial Melting
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"[O]pen access brings traceability to materials - if all research material...were to be made open access as a matter of course, then tracing back references would be a matter of simple mouse clicks. In the case of the Himalayan glacier-melt, 1 or 2 mouse clicks away: IPCC claims glacier-melt and gives reference of 2005 report by conservation group WWF. This reference is to an open access report and so - “click” ..."