Comments on: Open access: Feedback still desired

By: walt crawford

walt crawford — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:03:20 +0000

jonny: Thanks for the note–but if I continue OA coverage (in my own odd, independent manner), it will be in Cites & Insights, not on this blog. Although, as usual, there’s always a blog post when an issue comes out, noting the essays in the issue.
Physio: I’m reluctantly leaving your comment as is…language included, because I suspect it accurately reflects the feeling of many scientists. And if–no, when–”the university” (the library) can’t afford all those subscriptions, which increase in cost much faster than CPI?

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:56:39 +0000

Hi, as an editor of a US medical journal who is trying his level best to get it made open access, and as a follower of your blog, I’d really appreciate it if you kept up coverage on the topic. I’m trying to figure out where scholarship is headed and OA is among the places I think it’s going to go. Thanks!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:43:36 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t happen to see the post. I’ll go look now.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:58:26 +0000

The vast majority of academic scientists at universities in the US, Europe, and Japan don’t give a flying fuck about open access for the simple reason that they have university-paid subscriptions to all the journals they want to read.