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Hello, Am 31.01.2011 10:03, schrieb Bob Ward: > it also places an additional financial burden on researchers ... and > creates a barrier for those researchers (eg in developing countries) > who have less money at their disposal. Yes, OA proponents are aware of that. But at present, a big barrier for science in developing countries is the inability to pay for journal subscriptions, so researchers can't even get started on their research. Am 31.01.2011 10:23, schrieb David Waldock: > Am I right in thinking that PLoS waive the fee in cases where it > would otherwise inhibit the publication of important research? Yes. But the criterion is not the importance of the research, but whether the researchers have the funds: "We offer a complete or partial fee waiver for authors who do not have funds to cover publication fees. Editors and reviewers have no access to author payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper." http://www.plos.org/journals/pubfees.php Cheers Stephan -- Stephan Matthiesen http://www.stephan-matthiesen.de Neu auf www.science-texts.de: Wülstig - das Januarmuster ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptible Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************