http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/joshua-pearce/ Recent content in Joshua Pearce on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/76/pearce/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/76/pearce/ A great deal has been written about the benefits of open access and it should be intuitively obvious to all librarians (and really anyone) that universal free open access will be the optimum for the benefit of information availability for humankind. Thus, the EU is moving to open access all papers they fund by 2020. How this will occur is still being determined. The problem with open access has always been how to fund the publishing of academic journals appropriately.