Having gotten caught up to some extent in the Open Access debate over research publications, I am continually astonished by the lack of objectivity and the sheer partisanship of many of the participants. For those unfamiliar with Open Access or OA, this is the principle of “information wants to be free” applied to the world [...]

I have been following the developments of SCOAP3 , which is one of the more enterprising organizations in the Open Access world. SCOAP3, an acronym for Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (which actually presents the “3″ as an exponent; very clever), is attempting to make all research publishing Open Access by [...]