Dear Stevan, I understand your arguments on making online access to the scientific literature free. However, I'd like to suggest a compromise, which some publishers might be willing to implement right away:
All online journal articles will become accessible for free at a fixed interval after publication. A reasonable interval might be one year. Few sales of printed journals occur after a year, so only those people needing rapid access (and not willing to do the work of writing for reprints or accessing preprint depositories) would pay. Yours, -Dick ps: I don't have the instructions for posting this on bionet. maybe you could do that for me? -- Dr. Richard Gordon, Radiology University of Manitoba, HSC Rm. GA216, 820 Sherbrook St. Winnipeg R3A 1R9 Canada phone:(204)789-3828, fax:(204)787-2080, e-mail: [email protected] New book: The Hierarchical Genome & Differentiation Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics & Evolution: http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/lifesci/2755.html Adjunct: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Exec Member: CSTB, CARRF, IEEE-EMBS.
