Alma Swan on Open Access in American Scientist (the journal)

[Stevan Harnad]

                 [Cross-Posted]

    Alma Swan's article "Open Access and the Progress of Science" has
    just appeared in American Scientist (the journal) May-June Issue 2007:
    http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55131


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