The world of science publishing is changing, dramatically. The
internet has now produced a plethora on online-only journals
that have been instrumental in aiding the distribution of the
latest scientific results. So too has the relatively new idea of
open-access journals. Traditionally, experiments and data were
published in peer-reviewed subscription based journals. Most
schools and libraries owned subscription plans to hundreds of
titles and provided access to the employees so they could easily
(and affordably) conduct their research and hence, do their
jobs. In the late 2000s, things began to change. Funding
agencies who provided the research dollars to conduct this
research were getting increasingly frustrated that they had paid
for this work to be done, but were unable to read the results of
these efforts without shelling out a tidy sum to gain access to
the journal. This opened the door for open-access journals and
publishing. In 2008, the National Institutes of Health invoked a
new policy: that the wor