open-publishing
< academia
< science
< research
< tools
< More 1
< INTERNETS
< ICT
< georgebrett
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
In March 2005, a group of Berkeley faculty and administrators participated in a conference on the broad theme of the crisis in scholarly communication.
Scholars write articles to be read—the more access to their articles the better—so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.