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Important fossil finding published in an OA journal James Randerson, The palaeontologist who brought fossil Ida to the world, The Guardian, May 19, 2009. Excerpt:
Comment. Will anyone really raise their eyebrows at this? Good journals are made good by good articles, not the other way around. There's even a trend --among scientists as well as journals-- to provide OA to results which are especially important, on the principle that the more knowledge matters, the more open access to that knowledge matters. If the conjectured eyebrow-raising is not from disapproval, but merely surprise that Hurum didn't seek the prestige of a Science or Nature publication, one only has to reflect that discoveries like this one carry their own prestige, far greater than the prestige any journal could provide. Kudos to Hurum and his five co-authors for choosing OA. |