In the (openly-accessible) Sep. 30 issue of CMAJ, there's an editorial by John Hoey, entitled BMJ.com: toll-free no more. Two excerpts: "Any restriction to access seems to us a step in the wrong direction", and, "It is becoming increasingly clear that we need to find new economic models for scientific publishing, perhaps building the costs of disseminating knowledge into the publicly supported costs of research".
Posted by
Jim Till at 10/11/2003 12:54:00 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.
