AW: [Air-l] Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

[Charles Hendricksen]

Nature has a news article on PLoS (Public Library of Science) in its 9 
October issue (p554).  The author reports that some editors feel that 
the "author pays" model will underfund the journal by a factor of four 
or more.  Of note are two other financial factors: PLoS is being 
subsidized to the tune of $9 million; and that some institutions will be 
picking up the $1500 "distribution fee.

S. Liban wrote:

> Hi Jeremy!
> 
> This might be redundant for you - but there is a great hype about this
> in German media - at least in such, that an intelligent person would
> read...
> 
> The idea seems to be, that Science and its results should be available
> to anyone without cost - seems to me, that the ideal of OpenSource
> finally got to the acadamics, too... ;)
> 
> Interesting will be, how the big Science-Magazines will act....do you
> have any source? I mean, most are American....so they should be the
> first to shout...
> 
> Sorry, if this should be redundant - but I would greatly appreciate
> any information on this, that you would like to share...
> 
> Take care and have a relaxing weekend!
> 
> Samater "Sam" Liban
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gru?en,
> 
> Samater Liban
> 
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> 
> 
>>-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org]Im
>>Auftrag von
>>jeremy hunsinger
>>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 18:08
>>An: air-l at aoir.org
>>Cc: fibreculture at lists.myspinach.org
>>Betreff: [Air-l] Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
>>Knowledge in the
>>Sciences and Humanities
>>
>>
>>this is an interesting statement on open access
>>
>>http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
>>
>>Jeremy Hunsinger
>>Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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