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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:43:45 +0200
Subject: [SOAF] AAAS Science and academic integrity - breakdown of the year ?

Dear Colleagues and friends,

To link high subscription journal prices with pivotal issue of academic
integrity in biomedical publishing please make a note of the facts
questioning academic integrity by AAAS Science, and related conflict by
Elsevier one of the major journal, Brain Research.

The facts are briefly summarized and referenced in the following
contribution:

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More on the Cell Press boycott

On November 15, Alexei Koudinov, editor of the open-access journal,
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>Neurobiology of
Lipids, wrote an
<http://www.podbaydoor.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1106>Open Letter on
a Call to Boycott Cell Press, expanding the grounds for the boycott from
high prices to compromised academic integrity.

Posted by Peter Suber 8 December 2003 at 8:09 AM at
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>Open Access News , and
reprinted by BioMed Central at
<http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/oanews/>Open Access Now news.

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Also, while thinking of what is the true (and not the one offered by a
troubled journal) science breakdown of the year see my
<http://anzwers.org/free/neurology/reports/eletters.html#let2kennedy>Feb.
28, 2003 letter to Donald Kennedy, Science Editor in Chief. Is this
breakdown of the year a break of academic integrity by AAAS Science?

As for the true breakthrough of the year please remember: It is the
advance of the Open Access. Still don't think so? Or not convinced yet?
Then see <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html>Open Access News
to know what all major scientific and political (including UN) bodies all
over the world are talking about. Wonder who is damaging the conventional
publishing system? No doubt the dead habits (referenced in the cited above
Open Letter on the boycott) entertained by Science, Cell and Elsevier.

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
neuroscientist and editor

cc: Editors of 50+ neuroscience journals, scientists and editors quoted in
the Open letter