Pandora is a researcher (won’t say where, won’t say when). I don’t know her field – she may be a scientist or a librarian. She has been scanning the spreadsheet of the Open Access publications paid for by Wellcome Trust. It’s got 2200 papers that Wellcome has paid 3 million GBP for. For the sole reason to make them available to everyone in the world.

– yes that worked OK. She found a paper in the journal Biochemistry (that’s an American Chemical Society publication) and looked at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi300674e . She got that OK – looked to see if they could get the PDF – http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bi300674e

What else can we download? After all this is Open Access, isn’t it? And Wellcome have paid 666 GBP for this “hybrid” version (i.e. they get subscription income as well. So we aren’t going to break any laws…

The text contains various other links and our researcher follows some of them. Remember she’s a scientist and scientists are curious. It’s their job. She finds: