Happy Open Access Day

It's Open Access Day and people all over are discussing why they favor open access. Neil Saunders says there are a lot of reasons that scientific and medical research should be open access. He writes:

(i)The world pays for the research and shouldn't have to pay again to view the results. (ii) Scientists should be accountable - exactly what are we doing with your tax dollars? (iii) When information is free, many eyes can look at it and many eyes = more ideas than fewer eyes.

Jonathan Eisen, open access advocate extraordinaire, posted a video of a talk he gave at the University of Washington in which he discusses, among other topics, what convinced him to go open access.