tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post1386558196179593882..comments2024-03-17T08:30:21.129+00:00Comments on Open and Shut?: Interview with the Scholarly Kitchen’s Kent AndersonRichard Poynderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05433823131339077354noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961882.post-38848822870787771402012-11-07T19:47:18.110+00:002012-11-07T19:47:18.110+00:00"But last year their fears of being disinterm..."But last year their fears of being disintermediated were reignited, when three large research funders — the Wellcome Trust, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Max-Planck Society — announced plans to launch their own OA journal, eLife."<br /><br />There fears of being outcompeted is a more accurate assessment here. eLife is still a conventional journal -- it doesn't in any sense make an end-run around the traditional publication process. Any fear that existing publishers have of it is based on their sense that it will do a better job than they do, at lower cost.<br />Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com