The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.
Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.
Awesome! Now we need all the other journals following in their steps. There's no reason not to open up access if the articles are more than 6 or 12 months old - in research time, that's out-of-date and useless to keep under lock-and-key to the public. Increasing the public's access to data and knowledge can only benefit both the journals (there has to be some way to capitalize on that) and the public with increased awareness of scientific results.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
