Open, closed, or clopen access?

Commentary: open access, open business, closed fairness!

A strong trend to move from print to online publication is largely perceived in scientific and nonscientific fields. A growing number of publishers increasingly opt for online publication as an option or a compulsory alternative. From readers' perspective, this is a highly appreciated facility, but from the author's, things are different mainly because of excessive article processing charges (A...

Open access and closed options

Let’s start with some news. We recently announced that EMBO, together with Nature Publishing Group, will launch next year an open-access, author-pays journal called Molecular Systems Biology. Two reasons guided our decision: we believe that journals publishing data-intense papers—such as those in systems biology— should be open access so that the information can be shared and mined by the scien...

Copular Complements: Closed or Open?

In this paper, we present some preliminary observations on the syntactic analysis of copular constructions in LFG. We suggest several conclusions and directions for future research. First, the open analysis is appropriate for some copular constructions but not for others, even within the same language. Second, the same construction can be open in some languages and closed in others. Third, we c...

Open access journals: open for rich, closed for poor.

Intensive Care Units: Open or Closed?