With all due respect, your statement is simply false and ill-informed. The NIH – as well
as a growing number of large research institutions and funding bodies worldwide – has been
mandating open access for 4 years and I'd like to see any evidence that this is
"destroying peer review". There are many sustainable open access models that
publishers and scholarly societies are adopting, the only thing this campaign is
threatening is the taxpayer's obligation to pay twice for research they have already
funded.
Best,
Dario
On May 20, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Richard Jensen wrote:
that's a bad idea--it will destroy the financial
base of thousands of journals and throw the whole science community into turmoil for years
as the main quality control system --peer review--is destroyed.
The alternative of direct government subsidy of journals is even more dangerous, as it
will give politicians control over what gets published.
Richard Jensen
At 11:19 PM 5/20/2012, you wrote:
(apologies for cross-posting)
A petition you should care about: require free access over the Internet to journal
articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
http://access2research.org/
http://wh.gov/6TH
25,000 signatures in 30 days (by June 19) gets an official response from the White
House.
Dario
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