%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:72139 %A Frank, Martin %A Reich, Margaret %A Ra'anan, Alice %D 2004 %J Serials Review %K open_access publishers %N 4 %P 281--287 %R 10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.002 %T A Not-for-Profit Publisher's Perspective on Open Access %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.002 %V 30 %X Recent legislative activity in the US House of Representatives and the UK House of Commons has added fuel to a debate over electronic access to the Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) literature that was initiated in 1999 with the introduction of E-Biomed. Ongoing efforts to change the landscape of STM publishing involve moving it away from a subscription basis to an author-pays model. This article chronicles the swift evolution of electronic access to the scientific literature and asks whether the scholarly community will really be better off with government-mandated Open Access (OA) publishing.

@article{citeulike:72139, abstract = {Recent legislative activity in the US House of Representatives and the UK House of Commons has added fuel to a debate over electronic access to the Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) literature that was initiated in 1999 with the introduction of E-Biomed. Ongoing efforts to change the landscape of STM publishing involve moving it away from a subscription basis to an author-pays model. This article chronicles the swift evolution of electronic access to the scientific literature and asks whether the scholarly community will really be better off with government-mandated Open Access (OA) publishing.}, added-at = {2007-11-22T18:12:11.000+0100}, author = {Frank, Martin and Reich, Margaret and Ra'anan, Alice}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26f9b208d5935e37701b46645cb746383/jsicot}, citeulike-article-id = {72139}, doi = {10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.002}, interhash = {b9b6eec72880753b9cc6cab4f93a97c6}, intrahash = {6f9b208d5935e37701b46645cb746383}, journal = {Serials Review}, keywords = {open_access publishers}, number = 4, pages = {281--287}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2007-11-23T12:09:50.000+0100}, title = {A Not-for-Profit Publisher's Perspective on Open Access}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.002}, volume = 30, year = 2004 }