Let’s end the day on a happy note! I came across this video via Twitter and thought I’d share it with you all. If you are reading my notebook, you are probably in the choir, but this video can still give you good arguments why open access is the future and a necessary change.

Produced by PhD Comics; Animation by Jorge Cham; Narration by Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen

I know I’ve used a lot of the arguments presented in this video before, especially the bit about access to medical information. The only downside to open access is the cost of publication, which gets put on scientists. My solution for that is open notebook science. Just like I do every day, you can publish your all your research with some explanation for much cheaper than through journal publishers, and you can still publish the neat and tidy results in a journal of your choice after the fact.