Dr. P.B. de Laat: ‘Academic publications must be freely accessible’

"Open Access publication must become the standard for all academic publications, says Paul de Laat. As a lecturer in Philosophy of the Information Society at the University of Groningen he is conducting research on the changing attitudes towards software-related intellectual property rights. The main advantage of Open Access is that publications become much more widely known. ‘Since my articles have become freely available, I’ve been cited more quickly and much more often’...."