Royal Society Has Come Out Against Open Access Journals?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stuart Yeates: Royal Society Has Come Out Against Open Access Journals?, EDUCAUSE Blogs November 28, 2005

As you can imagine, people are disappointed by this stance, though the author of this item expresses doubt that it completely represents the Royal Society. Stuart Yeates writes, "The issue is challenging for the Royal Society, because like many scholarly societies they currently derive a large portion of their income from selling journals to institutional libraries". More...