Open access alliance: Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley

Great news! The Danish DEFF report concludes with savings of 70 million Euro every year so we should work harder for open access journals in Norway too. I think it would be about the same in Norway. I am sure that we could have spent 610 million Norwegian Kroner on something better than reducing our ability to communicate scientific results. What about some new nanotech labs?

According to Thomas C. Leonard, University Librarian at UC/Berkeley, "Publishers and researchers know that it has never been easier to share the best work they produce with the world. But they also know that their traditional business model is creating new walls around discoveries. Universities can really help take down these walls and the open-access compact is a highly significant tool for the job."

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0914.html