The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access'

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

By LILA GUTERMAN

If you wander through the stacks of university libraries, follow scientists into their research labs, or log on to vast stretches of scholarly cyberspace, you will find yourself on the battlefield of a war over scientific...

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