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...This same issue of access to scholarship hits even harder on people outside of our well-funded elite universities. Most universities cannot begin to afford the journal prices for which even Harvard strains to pay. Individuals seeking to navigate with their loved ones the bewildering complexity of treatments for serious disease are shut out from the sources their doctors read, and those looking to learn about public-policy issues like global warming are denied access to critical research. Most urgently, for researchers and policymakers in the developing world, access to knowledge can mean life or death for millions suffering from...
...Change is slow, however, because this situation perpetuates itself. Young researchers shooting for tenure must publish their best work in the most prestigious journals, and a journal’s prestige depends in turn on the research it publishes. The resulting chicken-and-egg problem for any new journal creates a powerful barrier to entry that enables publishers of established journals like Theoretical Computer Science or Gene to charge oligopoly prices out of all proportion to the work they actually perform...
...Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. After consultation, they followed a dozen other journals’ editors before them by resigning en masse and forming a new open-access journal with a friendlier publisher. Similarly, the Open Access Law Program has 34 law journals (and counting), pledged to making the legal scholarship they publish freely available...
...Other researchers, in fields from philosophy to biology, have gone further still, setting up new peer-reviewed journals founded on open access. Among these are top journals in some fields, including the Journal of Machine Learning Research founded at MIT and flagship journals PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine of the Public Library of Science led by Nobel laureate and former National Institute of Health director Harold Varmus. A handful (like the PLoS journals) are funded from their authors’ research grants; the rest operate on minimal university or foundation subsidies or even on no budget at all?...
...things Alberto Gonzales could recall at his Senate hearing on the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys was Rove's mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged...