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“Science World in Revolt at Power of the Journal Owners”
From the article, “More than 800 British researchers have joined 22,000 others from 161 countries in a campaign to boycott publishers of scientific journals who refuse to make research papers freely available on the internet after six months.”…”Science depends on knowledge and technology being in the public domain,” said Michael Ashburner, professor of biology at Cambridge University and one of the leading British signatories of the campaign, the Public Library of Science (PLS). “In that sense, science belongs to the people, and the fruits of science shouldn’t be owned or even transferred by publishers for huge profits. The fruits of our research – which is, overwhelmingly, publicly paid for – should be made available as widely and as economically as possible.”
Source: The Guardian

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