Dear Stevan,
I understand your arguments on making online access to the scientific
literature free. However, I'd like to suggest a compromise, which
some publishers might be willing to implement right away:
All online journal articles will become accessible for free at a
fixed interval after publication.
A reasonable interval might be one year. Few sales of printed
journals occur after a year, so only those people needing rapid
access (and not willing to do the work of writing for reprints or
accessing preprint depositories) would pay.
Yours, -Dick
ps: I don't have the instructions for posting this on bionet. maybe
you could do that for me?
--
Dr. Richard Gordon, Radiology
University of Manitoba, HSC Rm. GA216, 820 Sherbrook St.
Winnipeg R3A 1R9 Canada
phone:(204)789-3828, fax:(204)787-2080, e-mail: GordonR_at_ms.umanitoba.ca
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Unification of Development, Genetics & Evolution:
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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT