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Op-Ed: How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress
A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head. Traditional publishers are fighting to defend their paywalls, but molecular biologist and co-founder of the open access publisher Public Library of Science, Michael Eisen argues that keeping published research locked up hurts scientific progress and shortchanges the public.
A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head. Traditional publishers are fighting to defend their paywalls, but molecular biologist and co-founder of the open access publisher Public Library of Science, Michael Eisen argues that keeping published research locked up hurts scientific progress and shortchanges the public.
Source: Wired
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 22, 2012, 8:22am
Views: 1352
Posted on: Thursday, Mar 22, 2012, 8:22am
Views: 1352
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