[GOAL] Re: Interview with Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science

[Patrick O. Brown]

NOOOOOO!!!!!!....

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk
> wrote:

> Michael Eisen is an evolutionary biologist at University of California
> Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is
> also co-founder of the Open Access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science
> (PLoS).****
>
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>
> Founded in 2000, PLoS was conceived as an advocacy group for what only
> later became known as Open Access. PLoS’ first initiative was to publish an
> Open Letter and invite scientists around the world to sign on to it.****
>
> ** **
>
> Those signing pledged that henceforth they would “publish in, edit or
> review for, and personally subscribe to only those scholarly and scientific
> journals that have agreed to grant unrestricted free distribution rights to
> any and all original research reports that they have published, through
> PubMed Central and similar online public resources, within 6 months of
> their initial publication date.”****
>
> ** **
>
> Nearly 34,000 scientists from 180 countries signed the pledge; but while a
> small handful of publishers complied with the demands outlined in the
> letter, most blithely ignored it. Worse, most of the scientist signatories
> proved happy to forswear their own pledge, and continue publishing in the
> very journals that had turned a deaf ear to them.****
>
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>
> Disappointed but undeterred, Eisen and the other two PLoS co-founders —
> biochemist Patrick Brown, and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus — reinvented the
> organisation as a non-profit publisher, and in 2003 they launched an OA
> journal called PLoS Biology. PLoS Medicine followed a year later.****
>
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>
> More here:  http://bit.ly/xTWJNF****
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Patrick O. Brown
Department of Biochemistry & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine

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