It supports the idea that scientific literature should be disseminated withoutany financial, legal, or technological barriers except those concerned with the intellectual property for the author.
"In the field of robotics or mechanical engineering, the ability to create a moving part withoutany welding removes a lot of the barriers to prototyping, " Martins said.
Increasing the emphasis on enforcement and on detecting fraud before it creates a system-wide crisis can be accomplished withoutany new legislation, though legislative changes in the late 1990s and early 2000s appear to have removed some barriers to fraud.