Proposed legislation supports an untested publishing model

نویسنده

  • Michael J. Held
چکیده

Free access to information is a powerful and alluring concept. Under the “Public Access to Science Act,” recently introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Martin O. Sabo (Democrat, Minnesota), papers describing scientific research substantially funded by the U.S. Government would be excluded from copyright protection. This is proposed as a means to guarantee free access to this information. Representing the Rockefeller University Press (RUP), a nonprofit department of the Rockefeller University and publisher of The Journal of Cell Biology , I take issue with a number of the points made by the Sabo Act. It appears to me that this is a thinly veiled attempt by Harold Varmus and the other founders of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) to eventually force all publishers into their open access publishing model. As this publishing model is unproven and may well be unsustainable, this is an irresponsible act.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of Cell Biology

دوره 162  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003