Academic Journals Open to Change
By Adam L. Penenberg
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67797,00.html
02:00 AM Jun. 09, 2005 PT


An interesting article in Wired today about the Michael Eisen, co-founder of PLoS and his idea for an online system connecting raw data to existing research producing a multiplier effect to scientific progress and information. It was when he tried to create such a system that he discovered that the publisher's own the scientific articles, preventing him from using those articles. Thus began PLoS.

It is a quick read and kind of interesting for those interested in open access.