NOOOOOO!!!!!!.... On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk > wrote:
> Michael Eisen is an evolutionary biologist at University of California > Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is > also co-founder of the Open Access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science > (PLoS).**** > > ** ** > > Founded in 2000, PLoS was conceived as an advocacy group for what only > later became known as Open Access. PLoS? first initiative was to publish an > Open Letter and invite scientists around the world to sign on to it.**** > > ** ** > > Those signing pledged that henceforth they would ?publish in, edit or > review for, and personally subscribe to only those scholarly and scientific > journals that have agreed to grant unrestricted free distribution rights to > any and all original research reports that they have published, through > PubMed Central and similar online public resources, within 6 months of > their initial publication date.?**** > > ** ** > > Nearly 34,000 scientists from 180 countries signed the pledge; but while a > small handful of publishers complied with the demands outlined in the > letter, most blithely ignored it. Worse, most of the scientist signatories > proved happy to forswear their own pledge, and continue publishing in the > very journals that had turned a deaf ear to them.**** > > ** ** > > Disappointed but undeterred, Eisen and the other two PLoS co-founders ? > biochemist Patrick Brown, and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus ? reinvented the > organisation as a non-profit publisher, and in 2003 they launched an OA > journal called PLoS Biology. PLoS Medicine followed a year later.**** > > ** ** > > More here: http://bit.ly/xTWJNF**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL at eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- Patrick O. Brown Department of Biochemistry & Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University School of Medicine Support open access to the scientific literature www.publiclibraryofscience.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120220/10eb14bf/attachment.html
