Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, Texas 78209 USA.
J Cheminform. 2009 Mar 17;1:2. doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-1-2.
The advent of the Internet has been the impetus for the Open Access movement, a movement focused on expanding access to information principally by reducing the costs of journals. I argue here that the Open Access movement has had little impact on the chemistry community and has taken our attention away from the real opportunity to revolutionize scientific communication. I propose a plan that both reduces the total cost of publishing chemistry and enriches the literature through incorporation of Open Data. By publishing lots of data, available for ready re-use by all scientists, we can radically change the way science is communicated and ultimately performed.
互联网的出现推动了开放获取运动，该运动主要致力于通过降低期刊成本来扩大信息获取。在这里，我认为开放获取运动对化学界影响甚微，而且还分散了我们对真正实现科学交流革命化的注意力。我提出了一个计划，该计划既能降低化学出版的总成本，又能通过纳入开放数据来丰富文献。通过发布大量数据，供所有科学家随时重新使用，我们可以从根本上改变科学交流的方式，并最终改变科学的开展方式。
