IP: Science world in revolt at power of the journal owners

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:27:20 -0400
>To: "David Farber":;
>From: "K.Ellis" <guavaberry@earthlink.net>
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>Science world in revolt at power of the journal owners
>James Meek, science correspondent
>Guardian
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>Saturday May 26, 2001
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>Scientists around the world are in revolt against moves by a powerful group of
>private corporations to lock decades of publicly funded western scientific
>research into expensive, subscription-only electronic databases.
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>At stake in the dispute is nothing less than control over the fruits of
>scientific discovery - millions of pages of scientific information which may
>hold the secrets of a cure for Aids, cheap space travel or the workings of the
>human mind.
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>More than 800 British researchers have joined 22,000 others from 161 countries
>in a campaign to boycott publishers of scientific journals who refuse to make
>research papers freely available on the internet after six months.
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>Full text:
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4193292,00.html
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>Karen Ellis
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