Click Here To Read: Cracking Open the Scientific Process by Thomas Lin in the New York Times on January 16, 2011.
For science, open-access online journals are jostling the profit-making paper journals. This continues the argument that publicly funded research belongs to the people, not the publishers.
Click Here to Read: Berkeley Prof. Demands Open Access to the People on this website.
Scientists argue that online publication fosters a more open form of peer review, rather than the slower-moving, more restricted nineteenth century paper journals. Further, online permits greater access to both the scientific community and the public, sidestepping the increasingly costly approach of Elsevier and other major journal publishers. See “Cracking Open the scientific Process.” This approach captures the ideology of “International Psychoanalysis”: greater access and also greater critical debate.
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor