Mark Hermodson, The Open Access Debate, Protein Science, 13, 10 (2004) pp. 2569-2570 (accessible only to subscribers). An editorial. Excerpt: "It is my belief that few scientists who wish to read Protein Science are restricted in their access by the current publishing model....Protein Science receives half its submissions from places other than the North American continent. Many authors outside the US and Canada have great difficulty meeting just the page and color charges and simply wouldn’t be able to publish in a journal which required full publication charges of $3000 or more. This would result in their publishing the work in national journals and actually make access to the work more difficult for their colleagues around the world....I urge Protein Society members to write to their Representatives and Senators and also to Dr. Zerhouni, to oppose any bills that would mandate a change in publication policies beyond those advocated by the DC Principles...." (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) (PS: Hermodson gives some reasons not to convert Protein Science to OA, but none of these are reasons to oppose the NIH OA plan, which is about OA archiving, not OA journals. It will not require non-OA journals to convert to OA.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/25/2004 04:41:00 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.
