In light of the ongoing debate around the Research Works Act, universal access and the role of publishers in research communication, some images – like the suckling pigs on December 21 or today’s Open Access File of the Day - may take on a special meaning: just imagine the fate of fetuses if publishers were to regulate the blood flow in the umbilical cord the same way they handle the flow of information (and reputation) to the scholarly community.
- Fig. 1 of the synopsis by Caitlin Sedwick of the article Lessons on Life from SENP2, published in 2008 by Shang-Yi Chiu et al. in PLoS Biology.
- Licensed CC BY. Image credit: Wei Hsu and Shang-Yi Chiu.
- Used, e.g., on the Greek and Bulgarian Wikipedias
