11 Sep
2006
11 Sep
'06
3:09 a.m.
I suspect that the move to open access journals could largely be completed in a single stroke: the requirement by NSF that grantees publish in open access journals.
The NIH tried that, or has tried, is trying to do that, and has had [to best of my knowledge so far - maybe they got somewhere by now?] a very difficult time 'requiring' that it happen. Lots of info about this over at peter suber's blog. --elijah