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7 Open Access
Pages 24-28

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... Robert authors to put the PDF of an article up either on a personal or Bovenschulte explained that ACS encourages authors to link an institutional web page, if it is linked to the APS abstract. their article from their own web sites or their institutions' Thus, the article is essentially available free, but at the web sites to the article on the ACS server.
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From page 25...
... Waitblame for the fact that the community does not have OA. ing for the gold option to grow means waiting for it to create The intellectual content of the concept underlying open or convert and fund 23,000 more OA journals and then peraccess has all the intellectual complications of a message of suade the authors of the annual 2.5 million articles to publish the following sort: "Kids, it is raining outside.
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... physics database, from 1992 to 2004, and constructed a software Public Library of Science agent (trawler) that searched for articles contained in the physics central archive, both self-archived and non-self- Vivian Siegel described the Public Library of Science archived.2 The percentage of the overall physics literature as a public charity with a mission to make the world's scienthat was found to be self-archived grew steadily from 2 per- tific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
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... The 15 percent OA research articles at a different level leaves much to emulate. are multidisciplinary, with genetics and evolution leading, Martin Blume expressed relief by this statement, to followed by geology and environmental sciences.
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