From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 01:50:08 +0000

It¹s worth noting that (despite the slightly misleading title of Nature¹s
announcement) the articles are only being made "free to view² in the sense
that people who are subscribers may share links to the read-only versions
with non-subscribers. The articles aren¹t being made viewable by members
of the general public who have citations or who find the articles on their
own.

This certainly marks an increase in public access to Nature content, but
it¹s not as big an increase as it may seem at first glance.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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On 12/2/14, 5:06 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:01 AM
>
>Of possible interest; reactions vary about whether this is "enough."
>
>http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460
>
>Nature makes all articles free to view
>
>Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of
>its papers.
>
>"All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a
>proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied,
>printed or downloaded, the journal¹s publisher Macmillanannounced on 2
>December.... The content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48
>other journals in Macmillan¹s Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division,
>including Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Nature Physics, marks
>an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while
>preserving NPG¹s primary source of income ‹ the subscription fees
>libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles."
>
>See also the report in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
>
>http://chronicle.com/article/In-a-Move-Toward-Open-Access/150311/?cid=at&u
>tm_source=at&utm_medium=en