“Limiting access to literature means limiting the rate at which we produce new knowledge, and the publishers should be held accountable for that.”

This is a weekly series highlighting Open Access Button users from around the world, discussing their work, and sharing their stories. If you would like to participate, please email oabutton@gmail.com. This week we caught up with Timothée Poisot, a computational ecologist, whose research focuses on understanding how species

THE WEEK IN LINKS — SEPTEMBER 12

“What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week ?” Ernesto Priego, a lecturer in Library Science, City University London and Open Access advocate, pointed out at his interview [https://blog.oa.works/2014/09/08/the-library-of-the-21st-century-through-its-online-repository-is-transforming-the-role-of-academic-publishing-enabling-access-is-what-librarians-do/] with the Open Access Button the importance of libraries

The Library of the 21st century, through its online repository, is transforming the role of academic publishing. Enabling access is what librarians do.

This is a weekly series highlighting Open Access Button users from around the world, discussing their work, and sharing their stories. If you would like to participate, please email oabutton@gmail.com Lecturer Ernesto Priego, part of the team at City University London’s Library and Information Science Course, was

“At the very moment that most of us carry access to a global information network in our pockets, our ability to tap into the world’s knowledge is eliminated. And it’s not an accident. It’s on purpose.”

This is a weekly series highlighting Open Access Button users from around the world, discussing their work, and sharing their stories. If you would like to participate, please email oabutton@gmail.com. We caught up with Graham Steel, a tireless advocate for Open Access who believes in sharing information as