What do Jeffrey Skilling and ExxonMobil have in common with Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society? The same PR firm.
A group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges, say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific papers such as the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.
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how they differ
Strangely enough, ExxonMobil has more reasonable prices that Elsevier. Roll THAT one around in your noggin for a while.