nature declan butler
grrlscientist | July 2, 2008tags: researchblogging.org, open access, publishing, life science research, Declan Butler
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Wow, have you read Declan Butler's nasty little hatchet job that was just published in Nature about the Public Library of Science (PLoS)? My jaw hit the top of the table in my little coffee shop where I am ensconced -- why would Nature demean their journal by publishing such a snotty little screed where they attack the normal, but probably painful, financial ups-and-downs of a new journal?
Because Nature represents the old way of doing things, so Nature is afraid of those upstarts, PLoS…