[FRIAM] good for science

[Roger Critchlow]

This article appears in PLOS Biology today, titled: University Public-Access
Mandates Are Good for Science

  http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237

Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic
archives for a world-wide audience? Many US universities have adopted such
mandates for public access to faculty research, perhaps most notably
Harvard [1] <#pbio.1000237-1>, MIT, and the University of Kansas
[2]<#pbio.1000237-2>.
These policies (and many more like them in various stages of consideration
on campuses across the nation and world) are harbingers of a new order, one
in which essentially all scholarly articles can be found and accessed by any
interested individual.


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