EMBL Forum Science and Society Seminar: Michael Eisen

Slow, closed, expensive and ineffective: How science publishing is killing science and how to fix it - Michael Eisen 22 June 2018

In this EMBL Forum lecture Michael Eisen from the University of California discusses how the internet was invented so that scientists could communicate their research results with each other. Yet twenty years after the birth of the modern Internet most of the the scientific literature – one of greatest public works projects of all time – remains locked behind expensive pay walls.

Established in 1998, the principal aim of the Science and Society initiative at EMBL is to promote a better and broader understanding of the growing social and cultural relevance of the life sciences. The EMBL Forum serves as an arena for multidisciplinary events and activities highlighting the ways in which recent developments within the life sciences in general, and within molecular biology in particular, are having a profound impact on people, their societies as well as their cultures. We invite speakers – experts within various disciplines of science and the humanities – on a regular basis to the EMBL to give public lectures on topics of interest.