[Air-l] Open access publishing (was a modest proposal)

[elw at stderr.org]

> I suspect that the move to open access journals could largely be 
> completed in a single stroke: the requirement by NSF that grantees 
> publish in open access journals.


The NIH tried that, or has tried, is trying to do that, and has had [to 
best of my knowledge so far - maybe they got somewhere by now?] a very 
difficult time 'requiring' that it happen.

Lots of info about this over at peter suber's blog.

--elijah