[free-sklyarov] Another Ally?

[tom moore]

http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=200172219199

Don't recall if I mentioned this here or in a private thread, but...

Scientists have been complaining about restrictive access policies to
journals.  Recently, journals have begun using internet based publication in
addition to traditional print-based copies.  The problem is that they have
begun to change their subscription policies, even to university libraries
and such.

Journal publications, for those who aren't aware, are expensive (on the
order of >$100 per year) publications for researchers (ACM and IEEE have
many, Science and Nature are general interest science, and there are hosts
of others.  People publishing in the journals usually pay a fee (rather than
the journals paying the authors) to further offset costs for the publishers.

The Public Library of Science (http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/) is
pushing for free and open access to this material.