Guest editorial: Open access - Clear benefits, hidden costs

Learned Publishing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 83-84

  Anderson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 34247467921     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/174148507X183542     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. See the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access (http://www.earlham. edu/~peters/fos/bethesda. htm), and the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/open-access/ read.shtml).
2. Arguments about whether delayed OA is 'true' OA, important as that issue may be, are outside the scope of this statement.
3. Ware, M. ALPSP Survey of Librarians on Factors in Journal Cancellation. Worthing, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2006.
4. Beckett, C. and Inger, S. Self-archiving and Journal Subscriptions: Co-existence or Competition? London, Publishing Research Consortium, 2006.
5. 'Wellcome support for open access', http://www.biomed central.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features& issue= 18.