Published online 7 April 2010 | Nature 464, 822-823 (2010) | doi:10.1038/464822a
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Moves to make research funded by the US government available to everyone could mark a turning point in a publishing revolution. Declan Butler reports.
Declan Butler
The push to open up scientific knowledge to all looks set to go into overdrive. Over the past decade, the accessibility offered by the Internet has transformed science publishing. Several efforts have already tried to harness the web's power to make research papers available for free. Now two parallel efforts from the US government could see almost all federally funded research made available in free, publicly accessible repositories.
Traditional science publishing relies on institutions and libraries buying subscriptions and site licences to academic journals. Some 'open-access' publishers, such as the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), make papers free to readers immediately and try to cover the costs of peer review and publication by charging authors a fee. But author-pays business models are still in their infancy, and the papers they produce account for only a fraction of the literature.
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