Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.

Stephen Saideman argues that efforts to regulate blogging in order to preserve constructive debate instead shuts down a promising avenue for … constructive debate.

The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.