November 26, 2004

Journals' Prices and Open Access to Scholarly Articles

To the Editor:

I would like to address a number of assertions regarding open access that John H. Ewing makes in "Open Access to Journals Won't Lower Prices" (The Chronicle Review, October 1). He begins his essay by framing the birth of the open-access movement within the context of unhappy librarians and scholars. This is a gross oversimplification of the issue.

The impetus for the open-access movement was the fact that journals' prices had spiraled so far out of control that

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