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The Control Fallacy: Why OA Out-Innovates the Alternative

John Wilbanks¹

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Received 25 April 2008 16:14 UTC; Posted 25 April 2008

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Bioinformatics

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• open access
• innovation
• scientific publishing

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This article examines the relationship between Open Access to the scholarly literature and innovation. It traces the ideas of “end to end” network principles in the Internet and the World Wide Web and applies them to the scholarly biomedical literature. And the article argues for the importance of relieving not just price barriers but permission barriers.

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Graham Steel on 29 April 2008 18:33 UTC

Really great work John and thanks so much for sharing it in this way.

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Wilbanks, John. The Control Fallacy: Why OA Out-Innovates the Alternative. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1808.1> (2008)

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