Robert Walgate, PLoS Biology Launches, The Scientist, October 10, 2003. A good survey of opinion on the launch of PLoS Biology. Quoting Martin Raff, editor of the (competing) Journal of Biology from BioMed Central: "I think this will have a huge impact in getting people to think about open access and hopefully starting to publish that way. So it's a very good move."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2003 02:21:00 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.
