Peter Gregory, Open to interpretation, Chembytes E-Zine, December 2003, p. 33. (Originally an editorial in Chemistry in Britain.) A skeptical review of OA, full of misunderstandings, by the director of publishing at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Excerpt: "Open archive initiatives would allow those who can pay to promote their own work, provide industry with a 'free ride', and could result in an overall increase in costs and a reduction in quality and reliability....[Peer review is expensive.] It can, therefore, be argued that abandoning this system will save costs but if quality control is still desired, decentralising the process will cost still more, reduce its reliability, and require additional investment of time and effort by users." (PS: A good example of an article in need of peer review.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2004 08:57:00 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.
