Today's New York Times has an editorial supporting open access and the Public Library of Science (free registration required). Excerpt: "Several years ago Dr. Varmus's group [PLoS] issued an open letter, signed by some 30,000 colleagues, calling on the publishers of scientific journals to make their archived research articles freely available online. Most journals declined, so they would not undercut the profitable business of selling expensive subscriptions to libraries. But there is a basic inequity when much of the research has been financed by public money."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/07/2003 09:12:00 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.
