Just a few days ago, an article by Declan Butler was published in Nature regarding PLoS‘ open-access publishing model. This article was not well accepted by various open access advocates and science bloggers in general.
Johnathan Eisen from The Tree of Life was the first (that I noticed) to responde to the article and then many others followed along the same line.
Shortly after, Timo Hannay posted a “take two” at Nature’s Nascent that seemed to settle things down.
What I find to be the most notorious aspect in this whole string of events is that there is quite a large community of science bloggers that are ready to offer their “peer-review” in situations such as these. Is this a good thing? I would like to believe so…
Anyhow, I’ve only mentioned a few of the reactions. You can find plenty more reactions over at Bora’s Blog Around the Clock.
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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Nature, OpenAccess, OpenScience, PLoS, Publishing
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Ricardo Vidal is a graduate student in Biological Engineering at University of Algarve (Portugal) and is also currently the Community Developer at OpenWetWare.
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July 7, 2008 at 8:51 am
Greg Laden
I was just looking at the numbers of readers looking at these various posts. Compared to other events that seem to spark a lot of interest, this PLoS/open access discussion is drawing VERY little attention. Lots of people commenting, but not a lot of regular readers reading or looking.
October 4, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Mike Chelen
The original article looks interesting, however due to Nature’s publishing model, the full text cannot be freely accessed, so it is hard to be sure %P