What is the cost of knowledge? That’s the question asked by thousands of academics (thecostofknowledge.com) who have pledged to boycott Elsevier journals in a stand against “exorbitantly high prices”. They want science to be open access: if science is funded by the public, it should be freely available to the public. No more frustrating links to a $30 PDF? Great! But don’t publishers provide a service? The Editor in Chief of Nature thinks the shift is “inevitable”. Is he right? And who will pick up the tab?
Come and join us for lunch at 12pm on 25th May when Alice Bell (Imperial College) will be talking about the practicalities, the potential and the pitfalls to:
- Chris Bird (Senior Lawyer, Wellcome Trust)
- Stephen Curry (Professor of Structural Biology, Imperial College London)
- David Hoole (Marketing Director, Nature)
- Graham Taylor (Director of Educational, Academic & Professional Publishing, Publishers Association)
- Michael Jubb (Director, Research Information Network and Secretary, Working Group on Access chaired by Janet Finch)
We’ll bring the sandwiches, you bring the questions.
For tickets please register at http://imperialscicomm.eventbrite.co.uk/.