Please openly access this great story about open access publishing of scholarly research. In it, Wired’s Jamie Shreeve uses Harold Varmus’ work as Public Library of Science founder as a framework for talking about open access publishing of the scholarly serial literature.

A fun graf:

Varmus is the most visible characterin the movement to free the scientific world of its figurative corks: scholarly journals that restrict the flow of information by charging often hefty subscription prices for access to their content. Today, Varmus has been invited by Charles Nesson, a professor of law at Harvard, to enlighten the student editors of the various Harvard Law School journals about the virtues of so-called open-access publishing. Nesson introduces his guest as “the prophet of open access.� Varmus’ smile doesn’t fade, and his hair stands proudly where the wind last left it.

As they say, read the whole thing!

And if you want to learn more about open access publishing, here’s a resource page I created about it (in conjunction with a Lewis & Clark Law Review conference this March called “Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship.”)

[ Hat tip to William McGeveran's fine open access publishing post at Info/Law. ]