December 19, 2003

Archiving Scholarship for More Access

To the Editor:

Richard C. Atkinson names the components (the journal-budget crisis, the access problem, open-access journals, research visibility and impact, universities' research archives), but he doesn't manage to put them together into a coherent picture or action plan ("A New World of Scholarly Communication," The Review, November 7).

Today there are more than 20,000 research journals worldwide, of which about 600 are open-access. ...

The authors in journals that

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