http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/03/01/bryan-vickery-on-whats-broken-in-cheminformatics en-us 40 Walking the Web of Chemical Informatics <blockquote> <p>... The traditional model of publishing is sustainable, by which I mean profitable, because the academic/research community still funnels vast amounts of money into it from library budgets – it is certainly not self-sustaining. The fact that libraries still pay excessive charges to access this literature shows that the market is broken, not that the toll access route is sustainable.</p> <p>-<cite><a href="http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/ccblog/">Bryan Vickery</a>, Editorial Director, <a href="http://www.chemistrycentral.com/">Chemistry Central</a> - quoted in <a href="http://acscinf.org/docs/publications/Interviews/Vickery/2007/">Chemical Information Bulletin</a></cite></p> </blockquote> <p>Bryan Vickery's interview is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which being that it appears in an ACS publication. His comments raise the obvious question of <em>why</em> does the academic/research community continue to support existing publishing models, complaints notwithstanding. The answer to this question is the key to fixing what's broken.</p> Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:04:00 +0000 urn:uuid:6a367fd4-f82c-4eed-b778-d5caa53bbb6d Rich Apodaca http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/03/01/bryan-vickery-on-whats-broken-in-cheminformatics Open X openaccess broken acs scientificpublishing