March 12, 2004

Open Access Through Archives

To the Editor:

Regarding Lila Guterman's excellent article "2 Routes to Open Access: Archives and Institutional Subscriptions" (January 30), three small, but important, corrections should be made. ...

First, open-access journals do not charge "subscriptions." "Memberships" are a commitment by institutions to submit, and by open-access journals to accept, a number of articles from the institutions. This is just to help get open-access journals going. ...

Second, the

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