Damon Brown, Open-Access Journals Offer a New Way of Publishing, Journal of the American Dietetic Association 104, 1060-1062 (July 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Damon gives an overview of the basics of open access publishing. In a section pondering challenges faced by OA he includes some comments from David J. Lipman, director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), who points out that author fees could easily be accomodated in research grants, representing a small portion of the average grant. Damon also writes that PLoS Medicine editor Barbara Cohen "believes that OA will actually widen the potential for excellent papers as well as research because of easier worldwide access and availability." At the same time, the article includes considerable remarks from skeptics of OA, including Alan I. Leshner of Science magazine, who maintains that $1500 wouldn't come close to covering costs of publishing an article, and that he doesn't see sustainable business models among OA journals: "The ultimate model will be different from both the author-pay model and the reader-pay model. It will be one model that combines them in some way. I just don't know what it will be."
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Garrett at 7/01/2004 03:36:00 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.
