Declan Butler, Open-access row leads paper to shed authors, Nature, 425, 334 (25 September 2003) p. 334. Accessible only to subscribers (free online excerpts). Butler details the dispute between the New England Journal of Medicine and PLoS co-founder and Stanford biochemist Pat Brown. NEJM refused to use the PLoS open-access license to publish an accepted paper co-authored by Brown. When Brown asked to have his name removed from the paper in protest, NEJM first refused to publish the paper at all and then reconsidered. In its public explanation, NEJM pretends that its responses to Brown were forced by copyright law.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/26/2003 01:08:00 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.
