[Insight-users] PLoS Biology: Who Pays for Open Access?

[Luis Ibanez]

<http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0020105>


"...Advocates and critics of the [Open Access] movement appear to have
agreed that the issue warrants a robust, ongoing dialogue—a development
undoubtedly in the interest of the scientific community, regardless of
its ultimate outcome."

"...listserv messages, editorials, and conference presentations are
representative of more widespread reactions to the debate, there appear
to be a number of common misconceptions about what open access is and
what problems it can or cannot solve. Over the next few months in PLoS
Biology, we plan to explore the more pervasive of these
misunderstandings, in an effort to expose the real challenges that need
to be overcome and to identify some possible solutions..."


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