Biomedical Digital Libraries
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 EditorialGood old days?Charles J Greenberg Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208014, New Haven, CT, 06850-8014, USA Biomedical Digital Libraries 2005,
2:3doi:10.1186/1742-5581-2-3 Abstract
Alternative models of subsidizing scholarly publishing and dissemination have germinated and gathered momentum in the fertile soil of dissatisfaction. Like the stubborn spring dandelion that needs but a small crack in the sidewalk to flower boldly, the first flowers of Open Access in library literature, including Biomedical Digital Libraries, have sensed their opportunity to change the existing paradigm of giving away our scholarship and intellectual property, only to buy it back for the privilege of knowing it can be read. Will biomedical digital library and informatics researchers understand their role in a new era of Open Access simply by desiring an immediate uninhibited global audience and recognizing the necessity of open access peer-reviewed literature to become self-sufficient? | 
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