Re: PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

["Fytton Rowland" <J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk>]

Isn't this suggestion the worst of all worlds?  This approach already
exists, among those journals that have had page charges for many years,
and it has a poor image. People feel that are being asked to pay twice for
the same product.  And authors do not get the benefit of added visibility
and impact that come from true open access.

Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>
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Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:09 AM
Subject: RE: PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

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The best resolution of the dispute about whether the cost of a journal
should be supported from the producer/author/sponsor side or the
library/consumer side, ought to be for them to share the cost.

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