Bernard Wysocki, Jr., Medical Publishers Propose Data Sharing, Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: 'Alarmed by a government proposal to make biomedical journal articles more widely and freely available [PS: the NIH public access plan], the scientific publishing industry has crafted an alternative plan to distribute some of its content free of charge to consumers. A consortium of leading technical publishers is expected to announce today [PS: now announced] a plan [PS: patientINFORM] to allow three patient-advocacy groups to select hundreds of timely journal articles, and to make the content available through the groups' Internet sites. The organizations are the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association. The publishers include the Elsevier unit of Reed Elsevier PLC, John Wiley & Sons, Blackwell Publishing, and others....'We're getting a bad rap for not having original research information available to the general public,' says Brian Crawford, a vice president at Wiley who helped create the new plan." ' (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/09/2004 02:48:00 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.
