One exciting event that happened during this week was that The Royal Society in the UK is opening up its journal archives, allowing free access to many historical papers by scientists such as Newton and Darwin.
This coincides with Open Access Week (Oct 24 - 30). Open Access refers to the free access to papers published in scholarly journals. There has been much discussion about open access, and many people think that publicly funded research should be available for the public, instead of profiting the scientific publishers. Scientific progress can be much faster if more research were publicly available.
