Patients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? - STAT

AThomas's bookmarks 2018-09-14

Summary:

"Scientific publishing giant Elsevier recently came under fire after its director of scholarly communications, William Gunn, wrote a controversial tweet in response to a post that “people shouldn’t have to jump through hoops” to access important medical research.

While I disagree entirely with the harsh tone of Gunn’s tweet, the underlying rationale behind his comment should not be overlooked: to manage submissions, peer review, editing, and publication, quality scientific publishing requires infrastructure that costs money."

Link:

https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/14/patients-vs-paywalls-u-s-open-access-publishing/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » AThomas's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.medicine oa.business_models oa.open_science oa.usa oa.green oa.pmc oa.preprints oa.plan_s oa.europe oa.repositories oa.versions oa.patients oa.lay

Date tagged:

09/14/2018, 05:19

Date published:

09/14/2018, 11:23