The Tree of Life: Really? Nature put the #HeLa genome paper behind a paywall? Time for Nature Publishing Group to return ALL money obtained from genome papers

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-18

Summary:

" ... As I have written about many many times - Nature Publishing Group many years ago promised to make papers reporting genome sequence data freely available.  They do not generally live up to this promise well ... Today I discovered that not only are some important genome papers not freely available but one for the ages - the paper on the HeLa genome - reported with much fanfare recently as a triumph of an agreement with the family of Henrietta Lacks - is only available if you pay .. Once again I call on Nature Publishing Group to publicly disclose all financial gains that have come from people paying for the these genome papers and for the money to be returned ..."

Link:

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2013/09/time-for-nature-publishing-group-to.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.medicine oa.new oa.npg oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.policies oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.biomedicine

Date tagged:

09/18/2013, 07:51

Date published:

09/18/2013, 03:51