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funklordPerson was signed in when posted  1
06-28-2002 04:44 PM ET (US)
This part is highly inaccurate:
"6. Number of Scientists worldwide boycotting Corporate Science Journals beginning September 2001: 26,000"

This is the number of people who signed a petition at the Public Library of Science website (http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/). The petition called for boycotting any journals who 1) don't submit their material to a free online archive and 2) don't allow free access to all material after 3 months.

In reality, very few of them are "boycotting" any journals at all. I work for a science publisher, and authors of the petition have since published articles with us, despite the fact that we make our material freely available after 1 year, and we archive it elsewhere. The PLOS site even has a recent letter from the founders stating that it's okay to publish in journals that don't fully comply with their demands.
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