#beggaraccess: Nature, Dark Social, Free to View and the Open Access Debate | Scepticemia

"There has been a major scrimmage in the online academia and open access world over Nature’s declaration that they will allow free, read-only sharing of their published articles since ye olde times for institutional subscribers and 1997 for personal subscribers. Now this sounds great on the surface of it, but to be honest, hardly anything has changed! I know a lot has been written about it already, and I have put a list of the 'must-read' blogs at the end of this post, but I want to make my voice heard and send the message across to my circle of friends and readers ..."