Opinion The Column www.thecolumn.eu.com May 2006 Opening The Doors The
European Commission's proposals for more open access to publicly funded
research makes a lot of sense, says Zosimus. government and that the
powerful publisher lobby does not We pay our taxes, we fund our
universities, we fund research at block the proposal. our universities but
after the research is published we have to The EC report also recommends
experimenting with new pay to read the results. And today we really do
have to pay. For forms of open access publishing , where researchers pay
for the institutional subscription to The Journal of Chromatography we
have to pay 12225. If you want a single paper then you their articles to
be published free to all on the Internet. I think that this statement
needs a lot of expansion and clarification, have to pay $30. And all this
money goes to the publisher. The but in general it is moving in the right
direction. referees for the paper receive a thank you. The authors get the
Why after 10 years of the Internet is paper still the dominant paper
published. It's the publishers that make the money. form for research
publications? Yes, it has taken an increase in A report produced for the
European Commission EC by the bandwidth of the Internet to deliver the
on-line journal economists from Toulouse University and the Free
University of format that you are now reading. But this is a Brussels
found that the price of scientific journals rose 300% very readable format
and is easily convertible to more than the rate of inflation from
1975
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