Dr. Tom Scheinfeldt

"Our salaries are paid by the state. Our research 
is funded by tax payers. Our work is reviewed by 
volunteers. The costs of online distribution are
essentially zero. What in this equation suggests we
should be charging our students, colleagues, and 
fellow citizens for access?"

   Dr. Donald Seto 

"Open access is an interesting concept with ramifications 
perhaps unanticipated.  While readers and researchers can 
access the information freely, the burden of $1600 or more,
even with discounts, for publishing a single manuscript, 
one that impacts "Promotion and Tenure" among other things, 
frequently falls to the researcher.  Not all, especially
university faculty, are well-funded and therefore are not
able to publish in these journals.  Of course the ones who
can are able to support their funding requests- setting up a gap."

Dr. Monique van Hoek

"It was Thomas Jefferson, not only author of the

Declaration of Independence and President of the US

but also founder of the University of Virginia, who said,

'He would receives an idea from me, receives instruction

himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his

taper at mine receives light without darkening me. That

ideas should freely spread from one to another over the

globe....seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently

designed by nature, when she made them...incapable of

confinement or exclusive appropriation.' Open access is

about increasing the spread of ideas around the globe,

distributing our scientific and academic findings for the

Dr. Edward Maibach

"Publishing in open access journals 
is a great way to enhance the impact 
of your scholarship."