In class we talked a lot about open access and it's affect on the world of science research. Before taking Ales204 I had no idea how much free peer-reviewed information was available at my fingertips when I was connected to the web. This was very helpful when I completed my production economics term paper. I used several science journal articles as references from open access websites such as PubMed and the public library of science (PLoS.)
I suppose that open access poses threats to researchers in the fact they their research could be potentially stolen and claimed as original from new upcoming researchers. I believe though that because open access retains the same copyright rights as traditional journalism publishing, this is not such a grand fear.
I think that open access is going to continue to grow in the coming years and become the standard of scholarly journal publishing. This is because institutions cannot keep up with the costs of expensive journal subscriptions, especially when the sheer volume of scholarly journal online publishing is increasing at an almost exponential rate.
Here I've posted a link to the Public Library of Science, there are tons of great open access articles to read on a variety of interesting topics. Since discovering open access, I've read a lot of material on health, nutrition, and mental well being.
I've also posted a TED talk that I thought was very interesting on open-source cancer research and it's advantages and opportunities!
A fellow classmate of mine, Yuan Shi, posted another really neat TED talk on the importance of social media communication in society. Very cool! Check it out.
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