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Tuesday, 24th August 2010

Podcast with Author of Article & Article Summary (Only): "Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate"

by Jocelyn Kaiser
Source: Science
Vol. 329. no. 5994, pp. 896 - 898

From the Summary:

Publishers big and small are producing hundreds of free-to-read, peer-reviewed online journals that charge authors fees ranging from about $500 to $3000 per paper. The most prominent publisher, the nonprofit organization Public Library of Science (PLoS), launched its first journal in 2003. This year, PLoS is on track to make a small profit. The broader open-access campaign remains rife with controversy, however. Debates rage about whether open access is speeding scientific progress. Some argue that academic researchers already have good access to the articles they need. Critics suggest that the open-access publishing model encourages mediocre work, noting that PLoS, for example, has succeeded financially only because one of its journals collects fees on thousands of lightly reviewed papers a year. Some traditional publishers—including many scientific societies—fear that at some tipping point in the future, libraries will drop subscriptions and put journals out of business. But so far, the journals haven't shown that public-access mandates have done them harm.

Access Free: Podcast About the Article and Open Access with the Author, Jocelyn Kaiser

From the Science Podcast: an interview with Science's Jocelyn Kaiser on ten years of open-access scientific publishing, and the ongoing arguments both for and against it.

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