Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Journal of Biology đề tài: Open access to the scientific journal literature. | J. Biol. Journal of Biology BioMed Central Comment Open access to the scientific journal literature Peter Suber Address Department ofPhilosophy Earlham College Richmond Indiana 47374 USA. E-mail peters@ Published 18 June 2002 Journal of Biology 2002 1 3 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http content 1 1 3 2002 BioMed Central Ltd ISSN 1475-4924 Abstract None of the advantages of traditional scientific journals need be sacrificed in order to provide free online access to scientific journal articles. Objections that open access to scientific journal literature requires the sacrifice of peer-review revenue copyright protection or other strengths of traditional journals are based on misunderstandings. Open access to scientific journal articles means online access without charge to readers or libraries. Committing to open access means dispensing with the financial technical and legal barriers that are designed to limit access to scientific research articles to paying customers. It means that for the sake of accelerating research and sharing knowledge publishers will recoup their costs from other sources. Open access to the scientific journal literature would be hard to defend if its obvious advantages required sacrificing any of the obvious advantages of traditional journals. But it turns out that no sacrifice is necessary. Open access to scientific journal literature is compatible with all of the major advantages of traditionaljournals here I identify eight. Peer review Researchers could put their own articles on their home pages and bypass peer review but that is not the kind of open access advocated by the Public Library of Science 1 the Budapest Open Access Initiative 2 or BioMed Central the publishers of Journal of Biology 3 . All the major open-access initiatives agree that peer review is essential to scientific journals whether these journals are online or in print free of charge or priced .
