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.

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  • The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee’s Report, Scientific Publications: Free for all?, has reverberated around the scientific community.[1]

  • The inquiry into scientific publications presented the Science and Technology Select Committee with its first opportunity to examine at first hand the work of the hugely successful UK publishing industry

  • Our remit is formally to scrutinize the work of the Office of Science and Technology (OST), which is part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and its associated public bodies

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The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee’s Report, Scientific Publications: Free for all?, has reverberated around the scientific community.[1]. The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee’s Report, Scientific Publications: Free for all?, has reverberated around the scientific community.[1] The publicity that it attracted has brought much needed attention to the issues surrounding the way in which we publish scientific papers.

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