The August 8 issue of Outsell's e-briefs (accessible only to subscribers) reports that drug companies are complaining that journals are too expensive. Excerpt: "Content buyers in the pharmaceutical industry, which is often criticized for its own pricing policies, are experiencing a taste of that same medicine. Frustrated information professionals are railing against huge price increases on industry listservs and discussion groups. In one example, the American Medical Association increased the price of a customer's global e-journals license by 900%. An irony is that many of those same publishers also earn substantial advertising revenue from the pharmaceutical companies that are now being hit with price increases."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/14/2003 07:46:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
