About me

Introduction	Diane Lester is a biomedical scientist with extensive experience in academia and the real world. She has followed the long-running crisis of the peer-reviewed biomedical journals with disbelief. (For those who don't know, most biomedical researchers give away the reports of their discoveries to publishers who then sell the reports for fabulous profit, including back to the researchers who wrote them. This means hardly anyone can read the incredibly valuable literature the reports represent and can't search them properly. The reports are essentially humanity's stock of scientific and medical knowledge. She actually reads the journals for variety of reasons (or tries to, often publisher payment barriers prevent this), therefore is well qualified to write on this subject.

Introduction

Diane Lester is a biomedical scientist with extensive experience in academia and the real world. She has followed the long-running crisis of the peer-reviewed biomedical journals with disbelief. (For those who don't know, most biomedical researchers give away the reports of their discoveries to publishers who then sell the reports for fabulous profit, including back to the researchers who wrote them. This means hardly anyone can read the incredibly valuable literature the reports represent and can't search them properly. The reports are essentially humanity's stock of scientific and medical knowledge. She actually reads the journals for variety of reasons (or tries to, often publisher payment barriers prevent this), therefore is well qualified to write on this subject.