Open access to the scientific journal literature

None of the advantages of traditional scientific journals need be sacrificed in order to provide free online access to scientific journal articles. Objections that open access to scientific journal literature requires the sacrifice of peer-review, revenue, copyright protection, or other strengths of traditional journals, are based on misunderstandings.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Journal of Biology

• Publication date

  2002-06-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/1475-4924-1-3PMID 12144706PMCID 117246
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• Abstract

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