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Nature: Future E-Access to the Primary Literature Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Saturday, April 07, 2001 ``The communication of research results impacts on everyone involved in science. Today, Nature launches an online debate on the most crucial and talked-about aspect of scientific publishing -- the impact of the web on the publication of original research.'' From the article: ``The issue is, to say the least, multifactorial. At one level, there is the economics. It is hardly a state secret that some commercial publishers have charged high prices for low-circulation journals, and enjoyed very high profit margins while contributing to the so-called serials crisis. Few if any libraries can afford subscriptions to even a significant fraction of the literature (see Nature 397, 195-200; 1999). The most recent and prominent manifestation of the debates surrounding this topic is an initiative by researchers -- `The Public Library of Science'. (PLS) who, by threatening a boycott, are trying to force publishers to release archive reports of original research into centralized, (as opposed to dispersed) databases that are freely available and to which there is unrestricted access.'' Full story (free!): [link]

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