Publishers Fear Government Intervention

By 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 -- along with large scientific societies like the American Chemical Society...

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