Summary
Open access is generally interpreted as the immediate online availability of a researcher's materials. Nonprofits are arguing that there's another approach to openness that represents a "needed middle ground. The InterAcademy Panel released a five-point statement in December. It includes the principle that electronic access to journal content be made available worldwide without cost as soon as possible, within 1 year or less of publication for scientists in industrialized nations, and immediately upon publication for scientists in developing countries. The 48 signers of the Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science, strongly support the principle that publication fees should not be borne solely by researchers and their funding institutions, because the ability to publish in scientific journals should be available equally to all scientists worldwide, no matter what their economic circumstances.
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The Free-Access Debate Flourishes
In the ongoing debate over how the next chapter of "more open" scholarly publishing should be written, the not-for-profit publishers have made their voices more widely heard. So along with the positions of the commercial publishers and open-access supporters, there's now a third approach that's being recognized by many societies as ...
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