Re: Open Access Initiative From The Company Of Biologists

["Frank Norman" <fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk>]

Re. Company of Biologists, David Goodman wrote:
> Although all such experiments are most welcome, I am still considering
> the implications of a journal some of whose articles are freely
> accessible and some of whose are not. It will be interesting to observe
> the proportion. 

Yes, it is interesting.  It strikes me that in a sense this is the worst
of both worlds.  I still have to pay to subscribe to these journals to
provide complete access, but my faculty may in addition be paying to
publish in them, if they are so minded.  Will the subscription prices be
reduced at some point to reflect the number of free articles?

Frank Norman, Librarian. National Institute for Medical Research
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