RE: Athens security scam [long] <fwd>

[Jan Velterop <jan@biomedcentral.com>]

Probably a bit of an 'open door', but once the open access publishing
model prevails, all these problems will just disappear, including the
problem that the Eastern European student has of getting the paper he
needs. One more reason to make open access happen sooner rather than
later.

Jan Velterop

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Watkinson
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: 1/26/03 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: Athens security scam [long] <fwd>

It is good to have a posting from Alan, who is a real expert in this area.
I did hear back in 2001 that a major US learned society publisher
suspected that a Russian institute was attempting to use methods like
those described below to set up a database of journals for sale in a
specific discipline. If my memory is correct this publisher may like to
comment, but I am keeping my posting vague in case the people concerned
would rather keep quiet.