The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access'

By LILA GUTERMAN

Free-subscription journals may loosen commercial publishers' stranglehold on scientific research, but skeptics say they're no panacea

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Peter Suber, a professor of philosophy at Earlham College and author of a blog and a newsletter on the open-access movement, about whether the push to make journal subscriptions free will revolutionize scientific publishing and save universities money.

2 Routes to Open Access: