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Nature published an article yesterday about big scholarly publishers meeting with a PR firm to propagandize against open access.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/25/big-scientific-publi.html
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The big publishers of scientific journals are, not surprisingly, concerned about how open access to information on the internet is cutting into their profits.
Public access equals government censorship
Any scientific research (or any research in general) that is tax funded should be publicly available to anyone over the Internet. We don't need the government constantly protecting the profit margins of special interest groups at the expense of the American people.
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