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in the eye of the oa storm.
Byline: Jane Dudman
in the eye
of the oa
storm
Matthew Cockerill is in the interesting position of having watched an idea grow from being dismissed as fantasy to its acceptance as fact.
When Cockerill joined BioMed Central as its first employee in 1999, he arrived at the dawn of open access (OA) publishing. "The idea of OA publishing was then pretty much unknown," he says, "but we wanted to start from the ground up to build a web-based publishing company that would be streamlined without a lot of the inefficient stuff that seemed to have become part of publishing over time."
Cockerill joined BioMed Central as its ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, in the eye of the oa storm.