Dear members, Here is a nugget from Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus. In conversation with Richard Poynder, the British technology journalist who is interviewing many open access advocates (including me): RP: I'm curious about your motivation for supporting Open Access so vigorously.... HV: I believe that science is one of those activities that improves the state of the world, and once you realise how important publication is in the series of acts that constitutes the doing of science, and once you understand the incredible transformation of that publication process that the Internet, and software, and the whole digital world, now promises it is hard not to be pretty passionate about trying to make that part of the scientific universe work more effectively. Arun