Retribution denied to creationist suing arXiv over religious bias, Nature 428, 458 (01 April 2004). (Freely available via Nature Digital Edition.) A news brief reports the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against arXIv by Robert Gentry, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who posted 10 preprints offering alternative, creationist explanations for the Big Bang, which were then pulled from the server by the archive's administrators, who claimed that Gentry "lacked proper academic credentials." Paul Ginsparg is quoted in the piece, explaining that as of January 2004, one who would deposit a paper in the arXiv would need to be recommended by a current member. (The toll/free access Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used to have such a referral system, that a new paper needed to be "communicated" by a current NAS member, but they have since modified the policy.)
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Garrett at 3/31/2004 02:57:00 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.
