Richard Wray, Reed Elsevier at risk as MPs look into science publishing market, The Guardian, December 12, 2003. Excerpt: "Increasingly, universities are reluctant to pay the large fees demanded by publishers and are turning to so-called open access journals....Specifically the committee will ask about the importance of open-access journals and whether the government should support the trend towards free scientific information. Such a move could spell disaster for Reed Elsevier."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/13/2003 11:16:00 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.
