Carey Goldberg, Scientists seek open access to medical research, Boston Globe, August 14, 2003. A good story on open access, PLoS, the Sabo bill, and the resistance they face. Excerpt: "The open access battle taps into longstanding frustration among scientists, many of whom feel that they do all the work of the research, but then it is the journals that make money from it. As Patrick Brown, another scientist leading the open-access movement, put it, 'They're given publicly funded free stuff to own and control and make money off of.'" Quoting Alan Leshner, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science: "The notion of trying to increase access is a good one. [Nonprofit publishers are thinking,] 'Gee, I wonder if that will work. Just don't force me into it before we've tested it.' They have a hypothesis, so they should test the hypothesis, and if it works, it will become our theory, too."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/14/2003 09:58:00 AM.
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.
