January 30, 2004

Publishers Fear Government Intervention

By LILA GUTERMAN

The Promise -- or Pied Piper -- of 'Open Access'

2 Routes to Open Access: Archives and Institutional SubscriptionsBy LILA GUTERMAN

If the marketplace doesn't settle on either open-access or traditional scientific journals, will governments step in? That may be commercial publishers' biggest fear.

Unperturbed by competition from journals that charge authors instead of subscribers, commercial publishers