Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money.
… As that lack of enthusiasm demonstrates, the fundamental force driving the speed of the move towards full open access is what researchers — and research funders — want. Eisen says that although PLoS has become a success story — publishing 26,000 papers last year — it didn’t catalyse the industry to change in the way that he had hoped. “I didn’t expect publishers to give up their profits, but my frustration lies primarily with leaders of the science community for not recognizing that open access is a perfectly viable way to do publishing,” he says.
Richard Van Noorden: Open access: The true cost of science publishing, Nature 495, 426–429 () doi:10.1038/495426a
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