Back in February , we recount you a little aboutthe scientific revolutionthat is being spurred by the rising price of academic diary . At the time , there were questionsover whether the movement could gain the momentum it would require to move forward — after all , people have been object about the paywalls of private publishing bodies for years , but lilliputian had actually been done to face these fee head - on .
https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-federal-research-public-access-act-and-why-5884704
But according to an clause publish inyesterday ’s Guardian , the Open - Science Revolution — the inception of which many have draw tothis military post , bring out in January onthe blog of Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers — is in full swing :
… in January this class , Gowers wrote an clause on his web log declaring that he would henceforth correct to submit to or review paper for any donnish journal published by Elsevier , the large publisher of scientific journals in the world .
The internet site now has almost 9,000 signatories [ 9,273 as of this post ] , all of whom have committed themselves to refuse to either peer review , submit to or undertake editorial work for Elsevier journals . “ I was n’t expecting it to make such a splattering , ” say Gowers . “ At first I was taken aback by how cursorily this affair blew up . ”
Gowers , a mathematician at Cambridge University and success of the esteemed Fields Medal , had hit a nervus with faculty member who were increasingly fed up with the chokehold that a few publishing companies have gain over the publication and distribution of the world ’s scientific research .
The current publication model for science is bump , argue an ever - increasing figure of supporters of open access publication , a model whereby all scientific research fund by taxpayer would be made uncommitted on the web for liberal .
stay learn over onThe Guardian .
The capable - access opening move get a vast hike : Wellcome Trust joins ‘ academic spring ’ to open up science(The Guardian – April 9 , 2012 )
A large basic Wiley Post , by Wired ’s David Dobbs , which explore the logical implication of open science
Research Bought , Then ante up For(January 10 , 2012 , NYT ) ; andHow Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress(March 21 , 2012 , Wired ) ( two Op - Ed pieces by Michael Eisen , co - founder of open - approach publisherPublic Library of Science )
Should Research Be More Freely Available?(A response to Eisen ’s January 10 op - ed , January 23 , 2012 – NYT )
Thispositively massive ( and ever - growing ) list of posts and articleson open - access scientific discipline , curated by librarian John Dupuis on his blog , Confessions of a Librarian(Updated March 27 , 2012 )
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