[Taxacom] Fwd: open access

[Quentin Groom]

Michael,
the belief that Open Access cost thousands of dollars is a myth.

See Solomon, D. J. and Björk, B.-C. (2012), A study of open access 
journals using article processing charges. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 63: 
1485–1495. doi: 10.1002/asi.22673
Although this article is closed access the abstract tells you enough.

Also see a summary at http://t.co/TJURqTfmQy

Regards
Quentin Groom

Michael Heads wrote:
> ‘If you look at less wealthy countries like low and middle income
> countries,  they really really struggle to get access and so that’s a real
> impediment that prevents researchers in those countries from being able to
> either contribute or do world class research’. So if you charge thousands
> of US dollars to publish one paper that will help them contribute?
>
>
>
> ‘Even with  my brother starting the public library of science...’ – so no
> conflict of interest there then...
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Here is a splendid clip on open access, well worth to spend a couple of
>> minutes
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY#t=170
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>> Enjoy, and think about what it means for our domain
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>>
>> Donat
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