From her press release: "The Association of American Publishers welcomes the introduction of the Public Library of Science's (PLoS) first journal....Today, the PLoS joins thousands of publishers who already serve the global scientific and medical community. During the last decade, publishers invested hundreds of millions of dollars to make information more accessible to taxpayers and researchers. Content has been digitized; innovative licensing agreements have been created; in short, technology has already revolutionized the way we share knowledge. I'm interested to see if this experiment with author-paid publishing will work; for now, it's an unproven hypothesis."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2003 04:30:00 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.
