Op-Ed: How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head.
From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists’ reflections on their work, society and culture.
Michael Eisen is a molecular biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ........He blogs at www.michaeleisen.org.
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.Michael Eisen is a molecular biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ........He blogs at www.michaeleisen.org.
