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Royal Society warns of OA's 'disastrous consequences'.
Byline: mark chillingworth
Royal Society warns of OA's 'disastrous consequences'
Fierce debate erupts as members demand statement withdrawal
Scientific association, the Royal Society, is embroiled in controversy after it threw its backing behind commercial publishers and warned authors that open access will damage science. Last month, a fierce debate developed on related list-servs and an open letter from 41 of its members demanded that the Royal Society withdraw its statement.
"Funders may be forcing scientific researchers to change the way they publish scientific papers so quickly that disastrous consequences could result," the Royal Society states in its position statement on the Research Councils UK (RCUK) proposal that papers arising from publicly funded research should be placed in open access institutional repositories (IRs).
The eight research councils which make up the RCUK hope to have a final position statement by ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Royal Society warns of OA's 'disastrous consequences'.