A very interesting article by David Dobbs on the current nature of scientific publishing, and efforts to make publishing more open access.
One great quote in there from PLoS co-founder Patrick Brown: "What seemed an impossible ideal in 1836, when Antonio Panizzi, librarian of the British Museum, wrote, ‘I want a poor student to have the same means of indulging his learned curiosity, … of consulting the same authorities, … as the richest man in the kingdoms,’ is today within reach. With the Internet, we have the means to make humanity’s treasury of knowledge freely available to scientists, teachers, students and the public around the world.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/free-science-one-paper-at-a-time-2/
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