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...There is a philosophical problem when scientific publishers own as private property what amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars of publicly funded research," Kirschner said. "They restrict access and the result is a loss in the potential for scientific research...
...Kirschner said the only effective way to insure that scientists have inexpensive access to the most respected sources of information is through the Public Library of Science's campaign...
...Because the scientists provide 99 percent of the raw materials that are actually involved in the journal publication process, they really do have a huge amount of power in the free market," Kirschner said. "The one thing they have lacked is the ability to act in a concerted way to make their wants heard and taken seriously...
...However, Kirschner said the resistance to a government-run search engine was unfounded. There would be no direct oversight of journal content, and the search engine would simply be based around an already well-known scientific resource, Pub-Med Central...
...Basically the response has been to characterize this as a 'Do you trust the government with running this repository?'" Kirschner said. "We are not saying [journals] can't have their separate sites, but that their information be connected to the National Library of Medicine...