[Irtalk] Schroer: The Cost of Knowledge | The Dartmouth

[Hilton Gibson]

Dartmouth is counted among the best universities in the world, so why is it
failing to lead on one of the world’s most pressing issues? Most of our
research — and most research in America — is published behind immense
paywalls that keep the American public and students and scholars in
developing nations from accessing the information they need. *Preventive
vaccines for the Ebola virus in primates were developed 14 years ago and
published in Nature, an international science journal, behind a $32 access
fee. Had this information been readily available to the general public
after its date of publication, a human vaccine could have potentially been
researched and tested prior to 2014’s Ebola crisis.* The open access
movement believes that if knowledge is power, then timely access to
information is an issue of global justice.

http://thedartmouth.com/2015/01/22/schroer-the-cost-of-knowledge/
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