What is it about?
This is a commentary about the likely effects of Gold OA that was written just as PLoS was launching its first journal, PLoS Biology. It holds up pretty well, actually.
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Why is it important?
I postulated back in 2004 that PLoS's Gold OA business model would eventually lead to accepting more and more papers. Which it did. What I did not anticipate is just how many papers they would accept! PLoS One is by far the largest journal in the world. Talk about an incentive to publish more.
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This page is a summary of: Open Sesame? Increasing Access to Medical Literature, PEDIATRICS, July 2004, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP),
DOI: 10.1542/peds.114.1.265.
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