Revista de Biología Tropical ISSN Impreso: 0034-7744 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2075

OAI: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/oai
“Please pay $800 to read this article”: An open letter to paywall companies
Volumen 66 Número Regular Marzo 2018
PDF (English)

Cómo citar

MONGE-NAJERA, J. (2018). “Please pay $800 to read this article”: An open letter to paywall companies. Revista De Biología Tropical, 66(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i1.32238

Resumen

 

 Significant amounts of economic resources are spent by poor countries for access to scientific information that is blocked by pay-walls, and when fees are corrected for local economies, they can be the equivalent of hundreds of dollars per article. Pay-walls, is controlled by a small group of companies in rich countries, block knowledge from the societies that need it most. These companies should adjust their fees according to local economies: this would be fairer and would benefit everyone, including the same companies.

https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i1.32238
PDF (English)

Citas

Andraka, J. (2013). Why Science Journal Pay-walls Have to Go. Retrieved from: http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2013/02/18/why-science-journal-paywalls-have-to-go/

Bohannon, J. (2014). Secret bundles of profit. Science, 344(6190), 1332-1333. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.344.6190.1332

Browne, T. (2014). Let’s shine a light on pay-walls that deny open access to scientific research. The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/apr/29/pay-wall s-open-access-button-scientific-research

Curry, S. (2012). Set science free from publishers’ pay-walls. Retrieved from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21937

Taylor, M. (2013). Hiding your research behind a pay-wall is immoral. The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-pay-wall -immoral

Comentarios

Creative Commons License

Esta obra está bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons Atribución 4.0.

Derechos de autor 2018 Revista de Biología Tropical

Descargas

Los datos de descargas todavía no están disponibles.