If you’ve followed this blog at all, you know that we think that open access is an important issue. Too many important scholarly works are locked up behind paywalls where only those with subscriptions may access them. This means a lot of people outside of large research universities run into charges that can be more than $40 per article to read full-text. Watch this interview between NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins and 16 year-old inventor, Jack Andraka, to see what we could accomplish if everyone had access to the information they need.