So i bang on about open access a lot on here and I realise that people may not be interested.... so I'm going to include a video in this post to make it more exciting.
This video was made as part of Open Access Week and explains the principles of open access, that journal content is free to access by anyone not just those who subscribe to the journal, but more importantly, I think, it demonstrates the climate that has made a shift to open access so necessary.
The people narrating the video are clearly scientists who have become frustrated at how hard it has become for them, and others like them, to access scientific material even though it is available online. You can really feel the anger and frustration coming through the cartoons and it is this frustration that led to the Elsevier boycott, the Finch report and the new edicts by research councils that require publishers to offer open access on any research council funded articles/journals by April 2013.
But these guys don't just represent the scientists, they also draw attention to often forgotten issues such as the fact that journal articles are particularly hard to access in developing countries and in some ways this is impeding their educational and academic development.
While informative, this video is still very bias and doesn't go in depth into the reality and sustainability of open access, especially for those in arts and humanities but it is a good introduction into why open access is such a hot topic in journals publishing at the moment. So enjoy!
This video was made as part of Open Access Week and explains the principles of open access, that journal content is free to access by anyone not just those who subscribe to the journal, but more importantly, I think, it demonstrates the climate that has made a shift to open access so necessary.
The people narrating the video are clearly scientists who have become frustrated at how hard it has become for them, and others like them, to access scientific material even though it is available online. You can really feel the anger and frustration coming through the cartoons and it is this frustration that led to the Elsevier boycott, the Finch report and the new edicts by research councils that require publishers to offer open access on any research council funded articles/journals by April 2013.
But these guys don't just represent the scientists, they also draw attention to often forgotten issues such as the fact that journal articles are particularly hard to access in developing countries and in some ways this is impeding their educational and academic development.
While informative, this video is still very bias and doesn't go in depth into the reality and sustainability of open access, especially for those in arts and humanities but it is a good introduction into why open access is such a hot topic in journals publishing at the moment. So enjoy!
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