AMNews: April 19, 2004. Journal free for all: The electronic future of scientific publishing ... American Medical News
Why is this an important issue? As an example, consider that my library's print subscriptions through Lippincott Williams & Wilkins--the majority of our titles--will no longer have any free access along with the print subscription, and this will increase subscription costs by several hundred dollars per title, in a world where researchers and clinicians either don't want to or can't wait for an article to be copied or sent from another library through interlibrary loan. Also, they will only be available through Ovid, a provider of full-text services. But see, Ovid is owned by Wolters Kluwer, the same people who own LWW. See how that works? Lucrative for them, difficult for us.
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