Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The idea that open access is good, for science and society, seems to have gained a lot of currency of late
The combined effect of these rational responses leads to further limitations to dissemination and further increases in costs to the scientific community, making clear that the status quo is not a realistic option for science publishing
In the weeks after the Government response, the inflow of articles to the open access journals published by BioMed Central experienced an acceleration that hasn’t abated yet
Summary
The idea that open access is good, for science and society, seems to have gained a lot of currency of late. We live in a science communication culture that makes it perfectly rational for publishers to limit the dissemination of research results. The combined effect of these rational responses leads to further limitations to dissemination and further increases in costs to the scientific community, making clear that the status quo is not a realistic option for science publishing.
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