The Economist: Scientific publishing is having to change rapidly to respond to growing pressure for free access to published research. This is good. My own research used to suffer sometimes because Lehigh didn't have very good access, for example, to The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which journal contained some excellent articles on, for example, protein folding, which was nearly my field of study. Since PNAS is published by what is basically an arm of the U.S. Government, I've already paid for its contents. Why can't I see them? [Returning to work now.]
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