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From: Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin AT creativecommons.org>
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Subject: [sc-announce] "Freely available and still profitable?" -- Science Commons Blog
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:13:14 -0500

Title: "Freely available and still profitable?" -- Science Commons Blog

http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/02/08/freely-available-and-still-profitable/

Freely available and still profitable?

Despite the heated rhetoric over open-access (OA), some journal publishers have been quietly finding ways to reconcile OA with profit-making. The American Society for Cell Biology is one of those publishers. Gary Ward, treasurer of the organization, discusses this point in a recent blog post on The Chronicle’s Web site, contesting the common misconception that open access undermines business models and lacks an economic incentive.

>From the post:

“Scientific journals can be made freely available to the public and still
make money […]. .... “

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Click the above link to read more ...

-K
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Kaitlin Thaney
Project / Office Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin AT creativecommons.org
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[sc-announce] "Freely available and still profitable?" -- Science Commons Blog, Kaitlin Thaney, 02/08/2007