Manista Frenk – MIMAS Community Enhancement Officer (The University of Manchester / The Open University)
The article discusses the problem of availability and usefulness of open access for scientific community. Author considers advantages and disadvantages of OA, including financial matters and questions of profitability. He notes the absence of the controlling organization and unexamined question of financial institutions participating in the research. The paper was published 1st time here:Manista, FC. (2012). “Open Don’t Mean Free”: A Reflection on the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Publishing Research via Open Access. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1(2):eP1049. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1049
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