What are your thoughts on http://www.plos.org/ ? Just curious...I completely agree with what you said and I feel more than ever now since I am out of school and lost access to journal articles.
In the meantime, we need the universities to start playing hardball with the journals. They get rights to the paper for one year, max, and then the university will publish the paper on the web. That compensates the journals for their service, such as it is, but still makes the material available, eventually. Any contract can be negotiated, and I think this one could be, if the universities pushed on this issue.
In the meantime, we need the universities to start playing hardball with the journals. They get rights to the paper for one year, max, and then the university will publish the paper on the web. That compensates the journals for their service, such as it is, but still makes the material available, eventually. Any contract can be negotiated, and I think this one could be, if the universities pushed on this issue.