Journal Nature reveals all items to view

The publishers of the magazine Nature - one of the oldest and most prestigious journals of natural science subjects in the world - объявили, that all instances, since 1869, will be available for reading through a special application for more than 6,000 universities around the world. Copy or print the article will not be possible.

Access articles will be carried out by a special platform ReadCube, which will allow the viewing of PDF-versions of the articles, their annotation and the ability to share them with colleagues to an article can be viewed through a browser. Also, the document can be saved to your collection in the cloud ReadCube - works similarly to iTunes for media files.

The value of access to the journal Nature can be understood from the words of chief editor Philip Campbell: the cost of publishing an article in a magazine, taking into account the involvement of experts to review it ranges from 31 000 to 47 000 dollars depending on the subject. Thus open access journals means access to the highest quality scientific knowledge. In this case, Campbell hopes that free access to the magazine and paid subscription (individual or libraries) will co-exist.

In parallel with the opening of access to the journal Nature, there was another discussion - the commercialization of access to scientific knowledge. Some university staff felt that actually looks like an attempt to Nature only promote their publishing house, while the ideal situation would be one in which anyone would have full access to the database logs, and the cost for it would take on the community, as it happens in Crowdfunding.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/242332/

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