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Open Access
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Promise and Peril of ‘Open Access’
From the article, “If you wander through the stacks of university libraries, follow scientists into their research labs, or log on to vast stretches of scholarly cyberspace, you will find yourself on the battlefield of a war over scientific publishing. The good guys, in the eyes of many scientists and librarians, are the revolutionaries offering an alternative to the publishing status quo. They are creating online journals that charge no subscription fees. These agitators for change want to rescue librarians from the tyranny of prohibitively costly journals — upwards of $20,000 per year — and to empower researchers who, because of the expense, often have difficulty keeping up with new developments in their fields.” The COHE has two additional articles dealing with access in the 1/30 issue.
+ “2 Routes to Open Access: Archives and Institutional Subscriptions”
+ “Publishers Fear Government Intervention”
See Also: Transcript of an Online Colloquium with Peter Suber
Peter is the editor of FOS News and a leader in the open access movement. He chatted with COHE readers on Thursday afternoon.
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The February 2004 Issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter is Online
Always interesting and useful material from Roddy M., Catherine U., and Catherine F., from the Heriot-Watt University Library.

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