Open Access leads the way in promoting academic research

Scholars are embracing the internet to bypass publishers and speed the process of research
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING seems a world away for most of us, but it’s the intellectual infrastructure that underpins modern life.
And, like nearly everything else, it’s being speeded up by the internet.
What we think of these days as research began with the Royal Society of London, an idiosyncratic group of 17th-century gentlemen scientists. Mostly they were the middling upper-class – third sons of lords, with more free time than responsibility.
They met in a hall to talk about natural history, read letters from absent colleagues and performed experiments for each other. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times