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+ | === Guerilla Open Access === | ||
+ | * [[Guerilla Open Access Manifesto]] | ||
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+ | related: [[open_access_journals|List of some open access journals]] | ||
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+ | === Enclosure and Elsevier === | ||
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+ | "The problem of highly priced science journals is well-known. A wave of mergers in the publishing business has created giant firms with the power to extract ever higher journal prices from university libraries. As a result, libraries are continually being forced to cough up more money or cut their journal subscriptions. It's really become a crisis. | ||
+ | Luckily, there are also two counter-trends at work. In mathematics and physics, more and more papers are available from a free electronic database called the arXiv, and journals are beginning to let papers stay on this database even after they are published. In the life sciences, PubMed Central plays a similar role. There are also a growing number of free journals, especially in mathematics. Many of these are peer-reviewed, | ||
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+ | "Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: | ||
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+ | "The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world’s best known mathematics journals [...] For many years, it has also been heavily criticized for its business practices. Let me briefly summarize these criticisms." | ||
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