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by Stephen Pincock

Royal Soc. attacked on open access

Email: Stephen Pincock - Stephen.pincock@journalist.co.uk
News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051209-02

9 December 2005

A group of 46 senior scientists accused the Royal Society this week of putting its own considerations above those of science by adopting a negative stance on the issue of open access publishing, in which scientific literature is made freely available via the Internet. The letter-writers argue that the Royal Society is disparaging open access to protect the interests of for-profit publishers – including the Royal Society itself -- while the Society accuses petitioners of harbouring their own conflict of interest.


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