Once, such verbal corpses were the proverbial fish-and-chip paper, accessible only by newspaper-cuttings archives or people who spent several hours a day surfing microfiche in their local libraries.
Some journals now make the paper accessible to readers for free, but the author typically has to pay $1,000-$1,000-$3,000ove the paywall around their research.
(The company already has 300 open access journals; 1300 others operate on a "hybrid model," charging subscription fees but offering authors the option of paying €2000 to make a paper accessible immediately).
For well over a decade now, this technology-driven change in expectations has fuelled the open access movement, which aims to make academic papers freely accessible on the internet – not just to read, but to download, share, re-work and pass to software tools as data.
In a similar move in the US, the National Library of Medicine's Emergency Access Initiative, with the help of a multitude of publishers, is making many thousands of papers freely accessible to health care workers involved in the Ebola crisis.
The scientific papers and accessible editorial commentaries in Houk, Davis, and Beiser 1995 still collectively provide a good introduction to the relevant physiological, computational, and theoretical literature.
She received an annual $20,000 honorarium for 25 to 30 hours a week of work, including more hands-on editing than is typical at other journals, intended to make papers more accessible to a range of fields.
My main comments concern making the paper more accessible and compelling. 1) The paper could be made more accessible by motivating the use of each of the statistical methods used in the paper.
Below I provide critiques to the anatomy paper mostly to ensure that the paper is accessible to as wide an audience as it can. 1) My strongest critique is the nomenclature, in particular the classes of MBONs.
So while access is important, simply making the paper more accessible is a drop in the ocean to reaching the public compared to providing understandable explanations of those papers and distributing them or advertising their existence.
