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...push for the free distribution of scientific findings is the brainchild of acclaimed researcher at the Sloane-Kettering Institute Harold E. Varmus, who was also a candidate for the Harvard presidency. Helping to organize Varmus' effort are head of Harvard's Department of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner and Stanford Professor Patrick Brown...
...Public Library of Science is a political movement determined to make scientific literature readily available and take advantage of a powerful weapon," Varmus said...
...weapon Varmus speaks of is the Internet, which scientists once lauded for its promise of inexpensive and instantaneous information transfer, creating a digital scientific community. Now, they say access to information is rigidly controlled and constrained by the publishers of scientific journals...
...These publishing firms are jerking us around, we do all the reviewing for them and we pay money to have them published. Then we pay high subscription rates to read the articles," Varmus said...
...These publishing firms are jerking us around, we do all the reviewing for them and we pay money to have them published. Then we pay high subscription rates to read the articles," Varmus said...