Re: voice of the future?

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

Reasonable comment about PLoS One. but until it comes out one 
can't be sure--they may pull off a miracle. (Or they may get 
enough mss that they can in fact be selective, probably by 
"suggesting" rewritings until an article is either respectable or 
abandoned.), It's like publishing your findings by telling them 
to a reporter. I think scientists have been known to try that.

Obviously, it would have helped if the staff had known about 
PLoSBiology-- or even known the difference between OA and online. 
But it is possible that our discussions have become too 
complicated to be understood outside of the publishing/library 
world.

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
dgoodman@princeton.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: "James J. O'Donnell" <jod@georgetown.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006 9:55 pm
Subject: voice of the future?
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

> The following Op-Ed appears in today's Harvard Crimson (undergraduate
> paper), curiously signed as "Crimson Staff" and not by any individual:
>
> Opinion
> Keep Science in Print
>
> Web-only 'journals' increase access to science at the cost of quality
> Published On 10/5/2006 3:31:42 AM
> By THE CRIMSON STAFF

[SNIP]