Arthur Carty, the national science advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, has written an op-ed piece that calls for greater scientific sharing and open access models. Carty argues that “an open-access philosophy is critical to the system’ s success: if research findings and knowledge are to be built upon and used by other scientists, then this knowledge must be widely available on the web, not just stored in published journals that are often expensive and not universally available.”

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