Publishers trying to shut down free access to PubMed
Submitted by art on Thu, 2009-04-02 07:19.
Apparently some big publishers are trying to push through some legislation that would take away the public's free access to PubMed, the online research database that MSNews is driven by and most researchers use to find out what's happening in their field.
Quite bogus. And MIT researchers think so too. Although their "all papers will be made open access (unless the researcher opts out)" is a good step in the right direction, the opt-out clause makes it sub-optimal.
I'm one of the founders of
I'm one of the founders of www.pubget.com. Our business is focused on making scientific information access easier for researchers. Not only would reversing this legislation harm innovative tools like ours, it would significantly slow down the pace of scientific research. Quite bogus indeed.