How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
21st March 2012
Eighty five percent of published papers remain locked behind subscription pay walls, accessible only to those affiliated with universities and other large research institutions. But new journals that make everything they publish freely available are growing rapidly. And government efforts to make the results of all publicly funded scientific and medical research accessible to everyone are expanding, despite industry-backed legislative efforts to end them.
And that really advances science, as anything that restricts the free flow of knowledge does. Right?