“A standing invitation to the whole world”: how more open access facilitates progress in science
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-11-04
Summary:
"When the nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote his essay On Liberty[i] in 1859, one of his main aims was to secure the right to freedom of speech, to demonstrate that the state should not attempt ‘to control the expression of opinion’. While today, at least in Western Europe, free speech within certain parameters is generally agreed at least as an ideal, Open Access advocate Peter Suber[ii] has argued that Mill’s text can also be deployed in support of an argument for the widest freedom of access to what scholars and scientists have to say."