Nature has a news article on PLoS (Public Library of Science) in its 9 October issue (p554). The author reports that some editors feel that the "author pays" model will underfund the journal by a factor of four or more. Of note are two other financial factors: PLoS is being subsidized to the tune of $9 million; and that some institutions will be picking up the $1500 "distribution fee. S. Liban wrote:
Hi Jeremy!
This might be redundant for you - but there is a great hype about this in German media - at least in such, that an intelligent person would read...
The idea seems to be, that Science and its results should be available to anyone without cost - seems to me, that the ideal of OpenSource finally got to the acadamics, too... ;)
Interesting will be, how the big Science-Magazines will act....do you have any source? I mean, most are American....so they should be the first to shout...
Sorry, if this should be redundant - but I would greatly appreciate any information on this, that you would like to share...
Take care and have a relaxing weekend!
Samater "Sam" Liban
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-----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]Im Auftrag von jeremy hunsinger Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 18:08 An: air-l@aoir.org Cc: fibreculture@lists.myspinach.org Betreff: [Air-l] Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
this is an interesting statement on open access
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
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