The Chronicle has an Interesting Story on a looming boycott of scientific and scholarly journals.
The boycotters want publishers to place their content in independent repositories on the Web six months after a journal issue has appeared in print.
See also:
Original Article in Science as well as the Editorial by Science\’s editors who say the proposal puts nonprofit, scholarly publishers at risk.
\”\”As scientists,\” the scholars argue, \”we are particularly dependent on ready and unimpeded access to our published literature, the only permanent record of our ideas, discoveries, and research results, upon which future scientific activity and progress are based.\”
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