Ginny Hendricks's Blog
The Open Access Publishing debate continues
From IWR: Scientist accuses OA policies of being unclear
Scientist Peter Murray-Rust has blasted publishers for “a systemic failure to embrace open access”. He warns that anyone who purchases author-pays Open Access content may end up paying a lot of money for something not labelled as Open Access.
In an emotive posting on his blog he resigned from one journal after finding that Springer had retained the copyright after authors had paid $3000 to make their papers Open Access.
“I am a scientist who believes that there is a major advance taking place with data driven science, using data as a primary route to understanding. More...
