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Open access: a new horizon for scientific research?
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The British government plans to make all taxpayer funded research open access by 2014. The plans would mean that scientific research would become freely available online for universities, companies and members of the public. Proponents say it’s the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the Internet was invented.Critics question how the move will be funded. If it falls to the authors of the research – how will they or their universities be able to afford it? VOR's Daniel Cinna discusses this with Ross Mounce from the Open Knowledge Foundation; Rita Gardner, the Director of the Royal Geographical Society; Bjorn Brembs, Professor at the Department of Genetics at the University of Leipzig; Timothy Gowers, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
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