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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Richard Poynder <[email protected]>
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).
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Founded in 2000, PLoS was conceived as an advocacy group for what
only later became known as Open Access. PLoSâ first initiative was
to publish an Open Letter and invite scientists around the world to
sign on to it.
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Those signing pledged that henceforth they would âpublish 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.â
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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.
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Disappointed but undeterred, Eisen and the other two PLoS
co-founders â biochemist Patrick Brown, and Nobel Laureate Harold
Varmus â 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.
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More here: Â http://bit.ly/xTWJNF
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Stanford University School of Medicine
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