Minotaur: Six Proposals for Freeing the Refereed Literature Online: A Comparison

Stevan Harnad ( Homepage)

Ariadne 2001
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:2001:i:28:p:19)

Abstract:

Roberts et al., in Building a "GenBank" of the Published Literature argue compellingly for the following three pleas to publishers and authors: It is imperative to free the refereed literature online. To achieve this goal, the following should be done: 1. Established journal publishers should give away their journal contents online for free. (In the biomedical sciences, they can do this by depositing them in PubMedCentral) 2. Authors should submit preferentially to journals that give their contents away online for free (even boycotting those that do not). 3. In place of established journals that do not give away their contents online for free, new journals (e.g., BioMed Central) should be established that do.

Note: Stevan Harnad argues for the self-archiving alternative.
Month: 22-June-2001
Year: 2001

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