Open access science news is mostly good, with a bit of ugly

If only Our Science Journal Grade 1 didn't have such high subscription rates.

PearlsofJannah اللؤلؤ من الجنة

To see the papers that describe the latest science results, you need to have a subscription to the journals they're published in (or at least your library does). That leaves most of the public, and even many scientists, on the wrong side of a paywall from knowing the latest goings on in their fields.

To help speed the flow of scientific information, the National Institutes of Health has mandated a policy where any papers derived from research it funds are made public within a year of their publication; the Obama administration is now trying to expand that policy so it covers all federal agencies. Meanwhile, lots of journals have been founded that are open access from the start—as soon as a paper is available, anyone can download a copy.

There have been many developments in open access publishing lately, so we thought we'd do a rundown of the latest news.