Nature is providing six months of free online access to a collection of articles on microscopy. The costs will be covered by Richardson Technologies, which manufactures microscopes. (PS: This is a funding model for OA that more journals should consider. Call it sponsored OA. Nature used it in December 2003 when it got Qiagen to sponsor six months of free online access to a collection of articles on RNA interference. If you're wondering, as I did back in December, why Nature doesn't make the articles freely available forever, using the sponsor's subsidy to cover just the critical first six months, then note that the RNA articles are still freely available today. The Qiagen-sponsored free period expired last month.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/08/2004 08:33:00 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.
