SAB NewsWinner of the "The Future of Electronic Journals" Study AnnouncedPosted 3/15/2005 The Science Advisory Board surveyed more than 2100 life scientists in order to examine the debate between subscription-based resources versus Open Access publishing, as well as evaluate the offerings available from top online scientific and medical journals. A summary of the study's highlights, will be posted shortly at the SAB Study Snapshots webpage. As a token of our appreciation, study participants were entered in an additional drawing for a $20 gift certificate from Amazon.com. We are excited to announce that a professor from the Netherlands, screenname: JTAL, was the contest winner. When asked to provide a comment to the following question, "The NIH has adopted a policy in which they request that all papers published with research funding from the NIH be submitted to the NIH once the peer review process is complete. The papers would then appear in NIH's online public archive, PubMed Central, 6 months after they are published. Do you agree with this policy? Why or why not?," JTAL stated: "It is a pity that NIH has taken this approach (perhaps it was inevitable). I think it is worthwhile that they make all research available online, but to duplicate publications from elsewhere is not necessarily the way to go. One could also have tried to make an agreement among (on-line) publishers that all material, independent of the source of funding, will be made available to the public at large for free 6 months (or any other appropriate period of time) after the paper has been published." SAB Members can review additional comments by study participants by accessing the study's Insights page. You are invited to contribute your own thoughts by accessing the Online Discussion Forum. Similarly, study participants were invited to provide feedback on whether, for an extra fee, they would be willing to subsidize a subscription to an online journal for a scientist working in a developing nation. This question produced excellent exchanges by SAB Members and we encourage everyone to examine the posts on the Online Discussion Forum. Congratulations to everyone who made this study possible. The Science Advisory Board provides opportunities for its members to earn honoraria each and every time they participate in SAB-sponsored studies. Interested in finding out more? Please visit: http://www.scienceboard.net/about/participate.asp. |
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