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Re: Online Publishing ... From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri Apr 27 13:19:05 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: RModugno@aol.com: "Hello from Chicago" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Aetna woes" In reply to: Dean Huffman: "Online Publishing ..." and who will pay for what appears to be an immense undertaking? art At Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dean Huffman wrote: > >.. > >Submitted for your comment: > >Online Science Publishing: Publish Free or Perish > >Last fall, a group of prominent scientists called for a boycott of any >scientific journals which fail to release their papers to a free public >online archive within a few months of publication. The idea has since >gained serious momentum and by now over 15,000 scientists worldwide have >signed on to strike. The point of the strike, scheduled for later this >year, is to promote the open exchange of scientific results, which many >scientists feel is impaired by the commerce-driven policies of prestigious >paper journals. Scientific American (SciAm) summarizes the issue, which >bears on the very foundations of modern scientific practice. This is an >upheaval in the making of great importance to the future of scientific >information sharing and dissemination. Debate hotly rages on the Web sites >of the preeminent science journals Nature and Science with more material >than we can possibly cover. > >Boycott: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ > >SciAm: http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2001/042301publish/ > >Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/ > >Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/plsdebate.shtml -- art fougner, md A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote. Next message: RModugno@aol.com: "Hello from Chicago" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Aetna woes" In reply to: Dean Huffman: "Online Publishing ..."

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