[OWW-SC] FW: Royal Society to try open access science publishing

[Alex Mallet]

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From: Cory Doctorow [mailto:noemail at noemail.org] 
Posted At: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:40 AM
Posted To: Boing Boing
Conversation: Royal Society to try open access science publishing
Subject: Royal Society to try open access science publishing



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Cory Doctorow: The UK Royal Society, the oldest "learned society" in the
world, will try publishing some of its journals under open access licensing.
That means that instead of being offered as expensive subscriptions -- that
can only be paid by a few first-world, monied research institutions -- the
journals will be released for free on the net, and scientist-contributors
will pay submission fees to cover the cost of peer-review. This model has
proven effective with other journals, particularly the all open-access
journal Public Library of Science <http://plos.org/> , which is now the most
widely-cited journal in several of the fields it covers. 

Last November, the Royal Society published a paper decrying
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/25/royal_society_rentse.html> open access
publishing, arguing that no one should do open access because it would
undermine the Society's market for its journals. This prompted an outraged
response from the Society's members, who sent an open
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/13/royal_society_member.html> letter to
the organization affirming that the Society's mission is the furtherance of
science, not the collection of subscription fees. 


The open access movement has been helped by recent developments, including
the decision by the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's biggest research
granting bodies, that all articles produced through work it has funded will
have to be published on an open access basis from October. 

Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, said he was delighted the
society was making work freely available to all. "Maximum distribution of
research findings is essential to maximise their impact," Mr Walport said. 


Earlier this year a report by the European Commission called for research
paid for by member states to be made freely available. 

Link <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ec82359e-00c1-11db-8078-0000779e2340.html>  

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