*Wider open spaces* 19 April 2012 /Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell/ Like a fair few others, I rolled my eyes at /The Guardian/'s front page last week on the "academic spring" pushing for open access in scholarly publishing. It's not just the crassness of the comparison to the Arab Spring, or continued questions over business models for open access. It's not even that it is not really news - or at least that it's nothing new. For me, the main problem is that open access does not equal open science, and that is something we should be talking about more. I should make it clear that I am all for open access, but I also worry that it is a distraction from the larger challenge of developing meaningful public engagement with research. [...] Continua qui: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419...