Open Access Publishing Accelerates the Pace of Conservation Biology | SpotOn

"I believe the rise in open access publishing has forced us in the academic community to ask ourselves very hard questions about the nature of how information is produced and consumed.  I think that these questions are fundamentally important, regardless of how they are ultimately resolved. This critical look at publishing will generate debates among several players: scientists, publishing companies and various information consumers. I will leave those larger debates to my fellow blog writers, I instead want to use this space to write about a very specific aspect of open access publishing – broadly about how open access publishing can help combat neocolonial distributions in information production and more specifically, how open access can help conservation in developing countries..."