Public access to scientific information: Are 22,700 scientists wrong?

College and Research Libraries News

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Case, Mary M ^a  

^a Assoc Research Libraries' Office

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EID: 2242457796     PISSN: 00990086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (7)

1. This statistic is accurate as of May 21, 2001.
2. Available online at http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org.
3. Michael Eisen and Pat Brown, "Should the Scientific Literature Be Privately Owned and Controlled?" Nature Webdebates. Available online at http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/Eisen.htm.
4. "E-BIOMED: A Proposal for Electronic Publications in the Biomedical Sciences," May 5, 1999 (DRAFT) and June 20, 1999 (ADDENDUM). Available online at http./www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ebiomed/53ebio.htm.
5. Ibid.
6. In a response to PLoS, the editors of Science stated that they would make original research reports published in Science available for free after a year on their own Web site. "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?" Science. March 23, 2001: 2319.
7. Julia Karow, "Publish Free or Perish: Life Scientists Are Urging Publishers to Grant Free Access to Archived Research Articles," Scientific American, April 23, 2001. Available