My article for the Berkeley Science Review on Open Access is out, and it is available here (for free, of course!): Science to the people.
“Astronomers and physicists have been sharing pre-prints since before the web existed,” says Alberto Pepe, founder of the authoring and pre-printing platform Authorea. “Pre-prints are an effective (and fully legal) way to make open access a reality in all scholarly fields.” Within hours, articles are available online, and scientists can interact with the author, leaving comments and feedback. Importantly, submission, storage, and access are all free. The pre-printing model ensures that an author’s work is visible and properly indexed by a number of tools, such as Google Scholar.
Special thanks to Rachael Samberg from thee UC Library and Alberto Pepe from Authorea.
Things seems to change quickly in that field, thanks to institutional efforts:- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires and will free up science search engine Meta
- Elsevier journals are back online at 60 German institutions that had lost access
- BioRxiv preprint server gets cash boost from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Here’s a list of resources that I’ve compiled from the talk by Laurence Bianchini from MyScienceWork when I invited at LBL, and a piece written by Nils Zimmerman on Open Access at LBNL: Open Access publishing at Berkeley Lab.