IP: Science world in revolt at power of the journal owners

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:27:20 -0400
> To: "David Farber":;
> From: "K.Ellis" <guavaberry () earthlink net>
>
> Science world in revolt at power of the journal owners
> James Meek, science correspondent
> Guardian
>
> Saturday May 26, 2001
>
> Scientists around the world are in revolt against moves by a powerful group of
> private corporations to lock decades of publicly funded western scientific
> research into expensive, subscription-only electronic databases.
>
> At stake in the dispute is nothing less than control over the fruits of
> scientific discovery - millions of pages of scientific information which may
> hold the secrets of a cure for Aids, cheap space travel or the workings of the
> human mind.
>
> More than 800 British researchers have joined 22,000 others from 161 countries
> in a campaign to boycott publishers of scientific journals who refuse to make
> research papers freely available on the internet after six months.
>
> Full text:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4193292,00.html
>
> Karen Ellis
>
>
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