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The Higgs will be open access | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics

George Monbiot is right, but how particle physics exhaust?

room reading George Monbiot in the area of ??high social publishing, intellectual and financial academic with a familiar sense of outrage, shared most of the follow-up letters. Journals that charge prohibitive amounts of money for the privilege of publicly funded research by reading other is incredible. Even more surprising is that they are still walking away with more than 20 years after the birth of the Web.

I'm not sure why particle physics is able to do that, but other areas of science do not. I think the high-impact journals the last word, but we are willing to live without them. It hurts us probably in some indicators. The leading journals of physical particles behave more reasonably. No wonder, as they provide the content, layout, graphics, peer review and for most people of the distribution.

So unless they have a change in policy probably will not learn about the discovery of the Higgs boson, or the extra dimensions (or exclusion) in the journal Nature, by instance. Despite offers open access to communications of nature, which he accepted. (Declaration of interest, I'm on the Editorial Advisory Group, although not really get paid for it). You do not know what the impact of this factor, however. Or its impact on the world.


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