Education Why Should Taxpayer-Funded Research Be Put Behind a Paywall? The University of California's boycott of academic-publishing giant Elsevier has open-access advocates pleased. Others have concerns about transparency. James McWilliams
Environment Why Scientists Need to Learn How to Share Despite ethical fears over work being co-opted, the benefits of scientific cooperation are too big to keep avoiding. Michael White
Environment Why I Don’t Care About Open Access to Research—and Why You Should Open access to research papers doesn't mean much to researchers, but the government hopes it'll serve a greater good. Michael White
Education Unbundling Academia—It’s Not Just for Cable Anymore So-called "open access" academic publishing saves money and has political backing. But is it a good idea? Michael Todd