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Björn Brembs

University of Regensburg
Professor of Neurogenetics
Regensburg, Germany
Björn's research is centered around the neurobiology of spontaneous behavior: how do brains initiate actions in the absence of (unambiguous) sensory input? From the start of his research in this field in 1995, most of his research data have been collected by computer-controlled experiments. With his experience in digital data, Björn has been asking for modern information technology to be implemented into the scientific workflow for the last decade. It started with citation collection or the accessibility of scientific articles in the internet age, continued with anti-scientific evaluation criteria such as impact factors, the incomplete support for research data or the lack of institutional services for scientific code. Today, he finds little worth keeping of the woefully antiquated infrastructure we are still using. Therefore, he is calling on scholarly institutions to cancel (or not renew) all journal subscriptions as soon as contractually allowed and to use the ~US$10b locked down in annual subscription fees world-wide to implement modern information technology in an open scholarly infrastructure run by scholarly institutions for scholars.