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Why is Gregory Petsko's entertaining column in Genome Biology behind a paywall? "Five disreputable ways of making a fortune in science." includes "Number 1: Start a (non-open-access) journal". Can you smell the irony?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Petsko writes an entertaining column for the partially Open Access journal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_Biology

 

"All research articles in Genome Biology are open access. The journal also publishes a range of other articles that are available to subscribers."

 

Seems ironic since this particular column on "Five disreputable ways of making a fortune in science." includes "Number 1: Start a (non-open-access) journal"

genomebiology.com/2012/13/6/162 and DOI:10.1186/gb-2012-13-6-162

 

Another paper for the Open Access Irony Award

 

Matthew Cockerill replies "Because no Article Processing Charge (APC) is payable on such commissioned, non-research articles. "

twitter.com/bmcmatt/status/238937967140417536

 

 

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Uploaded on August 24, 2012