Peer Premier News Today

The rising costs university libraries are paying to access journals have implications far beyond the ivory tower. From new cancer treatments to debates about foreign policy, new information enters the public domain through academic studies. Now libraries are having trouble affording the subscriptions.

In today’s letters to the editor: David Johnston and Erin O’Toole; the CBC; Quebec and the French language; copyright and education; Tina Turner

Peer review is often seen as being too slow, too opaque, too biased and too likely to fail in its most important purpose: weeding out bad science