Fall 2003
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The Future of Scientific Publishing: Open Access to Scientific Research or Business as Usual?

Who owns a scientist’s intellectual property? Not the scientist—if he or she publishes a research paper in a traditional scientific journal. And subscriptions to such prestigious journals as Science, Nature, and the Journal of the American Medical Association can be expensive. Is the journals’ ownership of copyright fair when the federal government has sponsored the research at taxpayers’ expense and taxpayers must pay to access such research?....FULL STORY
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