![]() ![]() But there is another barrier preventing people from accessing published research, and that is academic writing. Open access is making excellent progress, and there are now many journals that are freely available online. The public fund much of the research that goes into peer-reviewed journals, and therefore they have a right to see it should they want to. ![]() Supporters of open access, myself included, argue that this is deeply unfair. At the moment you have to pay through the nose to read a journal article if you’re not at an institution with a subscription. The open access movement seeks to make research published in peer-reviewed journals freely available for anyone to see. ![]() He argues the imitative and pretentious nature of how scientists write science papers acts as a barrier to access and to thinking critically. Science is about finding the truth and making sense of things and an essential part of this is communicating clearly and honestly. Drawing on George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”, Lewis Spurgin discusses the bad habits prevalent in science writing. ![]()
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