I’d like to address some recent posts regarding young scientists and the “fear” of challenging the already well established scientific publishing system.

I haven’t concluded my degree yet and since my university and faculty don’t really open doors to any lab work throughout the 5 year period of my course, I’ve still to feel the pressure of having to publish my work. So please forgive me if I sound to optimistic :)

I’m an active blogger and blog reader. A wiki reader and contributer. A SL avatar and a real life biological engineer graduate-to-be.
These tools and many others are proving to be invaluable in helping with the communication and collaboration between old-school scientists and even newcomers like myself.

Although the publishing system is a tough one to budge, I can bet that given the momentum and the enthusiasm that is growing there will certainly be changes in the near future.

I for one find that open science brings so much more opportunities to scientists and therefore it can only make this field richer in content and discovery.

As a budding scientist, I’m looking forward in anticipation and not “fear”.