There's some very interesting viewpoints in a Nature Web Focus
ongoing debate, including position papers, at:
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/
On 18 Apr 2004 at 21:58, Andy Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, John Paschoud wrote:
>
> > The Observer of 18-Apr-04 (Business section, p10) includes an
> > article by Crispin Davis (Reed Elsevier CEO), who makes (what I'll
> > just describe as) some interesting arguments for the benefits to
> > academia of the "centuries-old STM publishing industry" as against
> > "more costly" open access e-journals.
>
> The article is available at
>
> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1194065,00.html
>
> Andy
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