Open access information and some science publishers’ responses
Charlene Barina January 25th, 2007
Once again, from slashdot, an article from Nature discusses the responses of science publishers to a rising interest in open access. From the article:
“…a group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.”
The article specifically mentions Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society as getting together to discuss this issue to them. Wonder how those being merged-into at Blackwell feel, if anything, about this?
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