American Scientist Article by Alma Swan Strongly Endorses Open Access Publishing

In an article just published in the American Scientist, Alma Swan details a plethora of reasons for the importance of Open Access publishing. Alma says, for example:

The bickering over varied business models, and the side arguments over public access to publicly funded results, obscure a larger, more important question: Can open access—the fundamental change to a system where scientists no longer face barriers to accessing others' work (or their own)—advance science? My work involves measuring, analyzing and assessing developments in scholarly communication. From that perspective I argue that the answer is yes, and that the advance of science is the prime reason that access is an imperative.

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Open access can advance science in another way, by accelerating the speed at which science moves

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Open access can advance science in another way, by accelerating the speed at which science moves

AND LOTS MORE GOOD STUFF. Read the article.