Back in February, we told you a little about the scientific revolution that is being spurred by the rising cost of academic journals. At the time, there were questions over whether the movement could gain the momentum it would need to move forward — after all, people have been objecting about the paywalls of private publishing bodies for years, but little had actually been done to confront these fees head-on.
But according to an article published in yesterday's Guardian, the Open-Science Revolution — the inception of which many have traced to this post, published in January on the blog of Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers — is in full swing:
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