Academic Quote by Nick Bostrom

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

— Nate Silver

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.

— George Monbiot

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published…

— Aaron Swartz

“I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other…

— Robert David Steele

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it…

— John Wilbanks

As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're…

— Chellie Pingree

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

— Juan Cole

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of…

— Myron Scholes

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls…

— Ben Bernanke

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered…

— Paul Berg

“Rosemarie Forsythe’s slides for the Management Committee implied that more and more of the world’s oil happened to be located in unstable countries, more…

— Steve Coll