The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists. The ranking of some countries has also been affected by a tendency to interpret national security needs in an overly broad and abusive manner to the detriment of the right to inform and be informed.
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Mapping Open Access, or the lack thereof
Just how many scholars and researchers are running into paywalls as they go about their work? A new initiative, the Open Access Button, is in the process of making it very clear.
Launched on Tuesday, the Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet to be used like so: whenever a researcher encounters a paywall, they click the button, and their individual moment of frustration and denial is added to a world map.
As Joseph McArthur, one of the creators, says:
We created The Open Access Button to collect these separate experiences and to showcase the global magnitude of the problem.