I think the subject line of this note needs clarifying as the two terms
opposed to each other are not true opposites. OA journals can be
commercial journals too. BioMed Centre is not a charity.
I suggest:
subscription journals vs author pays journals
or
toll-gated access journals vs open access journals
whichever you feel is the most important difference.
BTW - The best thing that can be said about the article referred to is
that it summarises in one place all of the usual (easily refutable)
arguments made by by traditional publishers against any form of change.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent, UK.
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.
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