As a researcher I endeavour to use data and words to describe what's out there and take the reader in a trip (not so) far away, to discover the unseen and understand the unexpected.
When research findings are provided online without access fees or other obstacles, it is done so in accordance with a set of guiding principles called open access (OA). By using an open license for copyright, restrictions to copying or reusing are likewise diminished or eliminated under various forms of open access publication. While peer reviewed papers are the most common open-access content, the same approach can be used for any published research output: academic journal articles that have not undergone peer review, conference papers, dissertations, book sections, monographs, software, and visualisations.
Figures are innocent people who, under solicitation, under torture, very quickly confess what is asked of them, even if it means retracting later.
Alfred Sauvy, L'Opinion publique (1958)
The tragedy is that politics has become a burnt-out land, somewhere capable people don't want to go because they know what fate will ensue.
Ivan Kostov