Free Access vs. Open Access
Stevan Harnad,
September98 Forum,
Aug 13, 2003
An editorial published a couple of weeks ago at PubMed Central has caused a flare-up in the open access community. Titled Free access is not open access, the editorial pointed out that while authors may elect (for a fee) to offer free access, "The publisher, the American Physiological Society, retains copyright, and the printed article still requires a subscription fee." In response, commentator Steven Harnad observes that "not necessarily, in theory; but in reality and in practise, *all* of the growing body of research today that is free-access is also open-access." Consequently, "There is no free-access literature straining to move fromCRLFfree-access to open-access anywhere in sight at the moment."
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