Joe Esposito, a regular contributor to this list, has
recently
had an article published in The Scientist. In it, he
provides a
nuanced perspective on the business aspects of open access.
An
excerpt:
"The debate over open access to the scientific
literature appears
to be moving onto a new phase. Many continue to argue one
side or
the other of a binary choice: Either all research publishing
should be open access, or only traditional publishing can
maintain peer review and editorial integrity. Others,
however,
have moved beyond that false dichotomy, instead increasingly
seeing various hybrid models emerging and new, often
complex,
business arrangements...We are entering a pluralistic phase,
where open access and traditional publishing coexist, though
they
increasingly are finding their own distinctive places in the
research universe and are less likely to compete head-on. To
respond to the binary argument with which I began this
essay,
open access is a good thing, but it is also a small and
inevitable thing."
The article appears to be accessible without restriction
here:
http://w
ww.the-scientist.com/2007/11/1/52/1/
Best, Greg
Greg Tananbaum
gtananbaum gmail.com
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