Open access ‘revolution’ in the news
The Guardian has published 2 articles using the term ‘academic spring’ to describe revolutionary changes in academic publishing, and Radio 4’s Today programme highlights a call to ‘share research papers’.
‘Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution‘ is a lengthy and very informative article covering academic publishing, the REF, the rationale for open access, and background to the boycott of Elsevier which now has over 9000 signatories.
The Director of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Mark Walport, also spoke on Radio 4’s Today programme about the ‘enormously important’ developments in academic publishing, and described open access as the best way to maximise impact of research. The new journal eLife, jointly supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust, will be available later this year.