A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research

steven bell writes “In an article titled “A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research: Online Plan Challenges Publishers’ Dominance” Rick Weiss writes in the Aug. 5, 2003 Washington Post about the Public Library of Science plan for revamping how scientific literature is produced and distributed. The core of the plan is to shift the expense of publishing STM literature from the journal subscriber to the researchers, who would have to pay costs estimated at $1,500 to get an article published (the article explains how this will work). One eye-popping factoid in this article: Elsevier earns a 30% profit on $1.6 billion in revenues. What does Elsevier VP Pieter Bolman have to say? “I do realize that the 30 percent sticks out but what we still do feel — and this is, I think, where the real measure is — we’re still very much in the top of author satisfaction and reader satisfaction.” Hey buddy, couldn’t you be “tops” with just a 5%-10% profit? See the article at: The Washington Post“

August 5, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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