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Profile of Harold Varmus and his work for OA Bernadine Healy, Making Science Free to All: Harold Varmus, scientist, US News and World Report, November 12, 2007. Healy, like Varmus himself, is a former director of the NIH. Excerpt:
Comment. Just a quick note on Healy's reference to the "author pays" model. She could have noted that (1) most OA journals charge no publication fees at all; (2) even when they do charge publication fees, "author pays" is a misleading and harmful term for their business model, since the fees are generally paid by the author's funder or employer, or waived by the journal, not paid by the author out of pocket; (3) while the NIH is willing to pay publication fees for grantees who submit their work to fee-based OA journals, the bill to mandate OA at the NIH does not mandate that it pay such fees; (4) OA through repositories rather than journals (green rather than gold OA) requires no fees. |