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Whither open access?

Evidently BioMedCentral is experimeting with some changes in the open access model. Not only have they raised fees that authors pay to publish articles, but they now require the editors of journals to assign their journal to BioMedCentral. So, open access is about access to articles, but now that BMC has helped to build value in these journals, they want some guarantees that they will stick around. But assignment is not the only mechanism to use to retain (or share in) the created value. Perhaps a license? Or change the model so the journals receive the fees directly, and pay BMC for their services?

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 13:28