Feminist Technoscience Blog

Jan Hagerlin, Royal Library in Stockholm and coordinator for the development programme Open Access, gives his view in “KK-bladet” nr 2, June 2009. It is even more motivating to work with Open Peer Review Journals, when also central functions in the Swedish university world confirm how obsolete current research publication system is. The scientific publishers are very profitable on confiscating the copyright of research publicly financed. The impacts are delayed research results and huge costs for the universities to be able to have access to its own research. EU as well as the US government and researchers themselves are now demanding free file sharing of research results. “Open Access is in the interest of the researchers. They will get more citations and increased visibility. The situation is different form the music and film industry, that looses income from file sharing.”