Interviews

Our community is used to immediate release of preprints
12 June 2006

As head of CERN's library, Jens Vigen works with a large number of physicists from all over the world and is seeking to ensure that their research output can be read by others in the physics community and beyond.

Open access is much wider than just readers not paying
12 June 2006

Martin Richardson is managing director of Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, which last year announced its Oxford Open option, where authors can choose to pay to make their articles open access.

Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not see the results
12 June 2006

Matthew Cockerill is publisher of BioMed Central, a publisher that is making a business out of the open-access publishing model.

Get research authors to change their behaviour
12 June 2006

Leslie Carr of the University of Southampton, is technical director of the open-source EPrints.org software. This software is used in more than 200 institutional repositories around the world.

Academics have access anyway
12 June 2006

Michael Mabe has been Elsevier's director of academic relations for the past seven years, although he has just left to become CEO of the International STM Association. The views expressed here are from his own industry experience.

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