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During the past decade, scientific publications have increasingly become available on the Internet, where they can be used by far more readers than print journals have ever reached. In The Access Principle,¹ John Willinsky argues that since the knowledge conveyed in these publications is a public good, access to it should be broadened as far as possible. Willinsky, the principal investigator of the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia, is deeply involved in efforts to use technology to improve the professional and public value of research. Publishers of open-access online journals rely on open-source software that this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Frank is the executive director of the American Physiological Society, Bethesda, Md. He is the coordinator of the Washington DC Principles Coalition, a group of 69 nonprofit publishers that has endorsed principles for free access to science.

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