Roger C. Schonfeld writes: “Today, funding agencies, policy makers, publishers, universities, and other stakeholders are gripped with uncertainty about how best to translate the Nelson Memo’s call for expanded public access [to federally funded research] into coherent policy and workable business and service models. With the laudable increase in access to journal articles, it is now fairly simple to discover and access much of the biomedical literature. But that doesn’t make the literature usable to all. What is needed is distillation and synthesis into formats that will be useful and situated within convenient workflows.”