DataGramaZero - Revista de Ciência da Informação - v.8  n.4 ago/07                            ARTIGO 05

If you are reading this you are benefiting from the Open Access movement in scientific publishing. Open Access reduces the great divide between the haves and have-nots of the scientific world, allowing anyone, anywhere on the planet with internet access to […] the latest scientific reports, unfettered by prohibitive subscription fees or lack of affiliation with a major institution to pay for them. That the process directly delivers to the public a product paid for by their taxes can only be considered a just and additional benefit. But access to cutting edge knowledge is not the only divide between the haves and the have-nots. Even Open Access leaves a vast inequality in scientific discourse.” (Dayton, 2006)