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STM manifesto rubbishes open access research.
Byline: Tracey Caldwell
STM manifesto rubbishes open access research
Tracey Caldwell
A group of major publishers has issued a 10-point declaration of "self-evident" principles that must underpin scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
The Brussels Declaration was issued on the eve of an EC conference on scientific publishing in Europe in an attempt to counter "unnecessary" EC intervention in STM publishing.
Signed by 35 publishers and eight trade associations, it stresses the importance of the publishers' role in peer review, condemns free availability of content, and dismisses research into the benefits of open access (OA) publishing as lacking rigour.
In its preamble, the declaration states: "Despite very significant investment and a massive rise in access to scientific information, our community continues to be beset by propositions and manifestos on the practice of scholarly publishing. Unfortunately, the measures proposed have largely not been investigated or tested in any evidence-based manner that would pass rigorous peer review."
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