April 6, 2001
Scholars Urge Boycott of Journals That Won't Join Free Archives
Several prominent scholars, including Harold E. Varmus, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, are urging a boycott of scientific and scholarly journals that refuse to make articles accessible online -- free -- six months after original publication of the article.
The 10 scholars also are making a demand that some publishers say is more challenging: that the publishers place their content in open archives whose entire content would be copyright-free and could be
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