Reservations from IEE for Scientific Publishing Report
IEE,
Jul 26, 2004
Tired, tired, tired. That's all I can say about this press release documenting the Institution of Electrical Engineers's (IEE) "grave reservations regarding the Science and Technology Committee's call for scientific publishers to move to an open-access publishing mode." Peter Suber skewers the response thus: "It objects that the upfront funding model will compromise peer review (reply), that it will exclude work from poor countries (reply), and that it will allow research corporations that formerly paid subscriptions to get OA journals for free (reply)."
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