Given the rise in populist scepticism of scientific experts and conventional wisdom, approved research needs reliable means to reach as broad an audience as possible. Can Open Access, providing material for free to the reader, overcome its funding crisis and licensing issues to help speed up the green transition?
his diagram from the University of Potsdam illustrates this point simply and shows where OA to publications falls in the open science cycle.
Open Science cycle diagram, University of Potsdam
according to the Directory of Open Access Journals, nearly 21,000 journals carry some open access articles.
Lawrence Lessig, writes ‘the goal is to counter the dominant and increasingly restrictive permissions culture that limits artistic creation to existing or powerful creators’.
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