Lifelong Learning and Open Access

"It is heartening to see the expansion of quality open access journal content encouraged by federal legislation, in part, to make the results of publicly-funded research available to all citizenry after a 12-month embargo. Hopefully, the ACRL will be successful in persuading Congress to continue to make publicly funded research readily available. Maybe someday the profit lines will disappear, and information will be freely available to all citizens as they continue their pursuit of credible information. Perhaps we will arrive at the Star Trek means of obtaining information: 'Computer, give me all you have on Klingon/human marriage.' Open access appears to be the answer to our students actually having access to research as they engage in lifelong learning."