“An Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge”

Impact, not ideology, was the watchword at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference. Attendees focused on the benefits of putting research–in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the sciences–quickly and freely into the hands of scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. One or two people in this room will die in the next five years because of research that didn’t make its way to clinics fast enough,” one presenter, Cameron Neylon, told the crowd. “