from Read/Write Web: RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work.
Excellent! The age of scholars producing original research, turning copyright over the publishers, publishers charging our libraries high fees to purchase the journals (in print or online) ... may be coming to an end.
If you love knowledge, set it free!
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Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I see this as more a clever way of advertising w/o costing the publisher a cent. Remember it is the publisher that is asking that this be done in the first place. To see the actual article you still have to get a copy of the journal.
Right. So a better journal policy might be to publish the entire journal article in Wikipedia, or make the article freely available on the journal web site and link to that article from Wikipedia. I think the long term solution is scholars self organizing online peer review processes and publishing articles online in the open.
SPARC is doing a lot of work on Open Access and driving down the cost of journals.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/index.shtml
Watch the new "Voices of Open Access" video series at
http://www.vimeo.com/oaday08.
I'm a bit late with this, but the journal articles in this track will all be open access.
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