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Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work?

Posted by Hemos on from the it-darn-well-better dept.

evilquaker writes "Nature is running a free web focus on the issue of open access to scientific literature. The current model of scientific publishing dates back to the seventeenth century and -- like the music industry -- is in serious danger of becoming irrelevant because of the rise of the internet. The main issue up for discussion is whether the author-pays/access-is-free model will supplant the author-pays-less/readers-pay-too model. "

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  1. I don't know... sounds risky by L.+VeGas · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have all this scientific information just kind of floating around, you have the very real danger of contaminating political agendas.

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