Climate Change and Open Science

"For most scientists, access to the internet is not enough to participate in world science, because at present doing science on the internet needs money. This problem can be overcome by making the relevant science open-access (OA). Open access is defined by Peter Suber in an article in the book 'Understanding Knowledge as a Commons' [5] as 'not only free of charge to everyone with an internet connection, but free of most copyright and licensing restrictions' [6]. In the same book, an article by Charles Schweik [7] describes how OA 'has the potential to lead to more rapid progress in research than is possible within the existing structure of scientific research and publication'. Suber has also written an excellent book on OA, which is itself open access [8]."