Another blog comment on the Royal Society statement
Paul Revere, The Royal Society of Microsoft, Effect Measure, November 29, 2005. Excerpt:
The Royal Society is protecting its turf (don’t blame them), but not protecting science. Many of us depend on OA journals, of which there are now hundreds (Disclaimer; one of the Reveres is Editor in Chief of an OA peer reviewed scientific journal). The developing world benefits. Scientists benefit because many more people are able to read their papers without having to subscribe to a journal. So if the Royal Society’s journals go under because they are the buggy whip of the automobile age, that’s too bad for them, but on balance science is better off.
