“El acceso al conocimiento científico es un derecho humano” | Ciencia | EL PAÍS
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Summary:
[From Google translate] Access to scientific knowledge is a human right.
Canadian activist John Willinsky proposes an editorial model compatible with open science
Scientific knowledge is growing every day. In the next 24 hours, hundreds of studies with the most recent discoveries will be published, but half of them will be published in academic journals that are only distributed to research centres capable of paying for million-dollar subscriptions. It is worth asking why a science that depends to a large extent on public funding does not provide all its results for citizens. Stanford University educator, author, activist and professor John Willinsky (Toronto, 1950) has been campaigning for two decades for free and universal access to scientific information. He assures that this vision, that of open science, is already possible in the digital age. Yet their efforts have been thwarted by the zeal with which academic publishers cling to their archaic publishing model.