Royal Society Open Access Warning
Excerpt from article:
In a position statement on the ‘open access’ debate, the Royal Society welcomes advances in technology “where the aim is to improve the exchange of knowledge between researchers and with wider society”. But it calls for funders to undertake a proper study before making researchers deposit papers about their work in open access journals, archives and repositories.
The statement concludes: “Careful forethought, informed by proper investigation of the costs and benefits, is required before introducing new models that amount to the biggest change in the way that knowledge is exchanged since the invention of the peer-reviewed scientific journal 340 years ago. Otherwise the exchange of knowledge could be severely disrupted, and researchers and wider society will suffer the resulting consequences.”
Serials-enews, 24 Feb, 2006
http://www.openrfi.com/NASIG/si_pd.cfm?ac=9068&pid=22&zid=2205&issueno=107
