Representative Conyers speaks
Read it here. I've got a father-in-law's 70th birthday, and a reply brief to complete before a response. But stay tuned (and pitch in if you can).
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Comments (3)
Regarding his peer review argument, as far as I understand, the NIH policy states that scientists must make their articles open a year after initial publication. Doesn't this mean that the articles, if already published, should have been peer-reviewed already?
Also, here's an interesting blog post by Michael Poynder about OA and peer review:
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/10/open-access-death-knell-for-peer.html
and a piece from the SPARC OA newsletter:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-07.htm#peerreview
Gee...... It sure got quiet around here. :
Open-access publishing on the Internet is going to kill the peer-reviewed journal publishing industry, the same way that cassette tapes, home VCR's, and MP3's killed all of their respective industries.
Oh, wait ...