2009/03/17 by Steven M. Bachrach · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1186/1758-2946-1-2
openalex publication_date 2009/03/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The advent of the Internet has been the impetus for the Open Access movement, a movement focused on expanding access to information principally by reducing the costs of journals. I argue here that the Open Access movement has had little impact on the chemistry community and has taken our attention away from the real opportunity to revolutionize scientific communication. I propose a plan that both reduces the total cost of publishing chemistry and enriches the literature through incorporation of Open Data. By publishing lots of data, available for ready re-use by all scientists, we can radically change the way science is communicated and ultimately performed.