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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Don't let me be misunderstood: the role of access

Jim Hu, A note to authors, blogs for industry, October 22, 2008.
A reason to publish in open access journals:

Sometimes I'd like to view your papers while I'm off campus and at a study section. Of course, if you're one of my grants, I have already accessed your paper from home. But if I can't access the paper from the NSF building in Arlington, or from a hotel where an NIH panel is meeting, I can't use information from it to argue against some other panelists misinterpretation of what you did. ...
As Nick Anthis points out:
To be fair, universities generally offer some kind of off-campus access to electronic journals for their faculty and students. However, these systems often require some sort of premeditation (i.e. signing up to use them while you're still on campus), can be prone to technological hiccups, and/or can be cumbersome to use. ...