It's Time To Embrace Open Access In Publishing

" ... David Burkus, author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas, argues, 'One of the single most effective ways to enhance your creativity is to regularly break the cycle of isolation and interact, talk, and share your work with your colleagues and friends.' OA is a movement to be embraced, not shunned. Sharing 'work, setbacks, and insights can amplify the creativity produced by each,' Burkus concludes. In a corporate setting, that means greater efficiency and profits ... Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory traces the OA Movement in publishing to the 1990s with the development of OA journals and the Open Archives Initiative, followed by the promulgation of an OA policies registry. The OA Movement took on the appearance of a freight train barreling down hill.  However, there are still scholarly journals today holding out for big subscription fees limiting gratis and libre access to those not able or willing to pay. Some university publishers and NGOs like the Mellon Foundation are funding alternative approaches for meeting OA demand in PDF form online.  The Council on Library and Information Resources reports in Trends in Electronic Publishing that it is more cost efficient to publish information on the Web ..."