From: Yuehui Zhou (yuehuizhou$##$hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 10:40:43 EDT
Hi, dear concerned list members
We are talking about marketing chemical information. Has anyone also noticed
that the publishers charge money on information suppliers too, the journal
article authors, for example. I was wondering what those people in
publishing houses are doing? They charge money when somebody summit an
article to them and they do that again when somebody wants to read the
article. I hope somebody from a publishing house can explain me why is that.
I would rather watch this tendency in context of globally marching
commercialization. The business spirit is infiltrating every other aspects
of human societies where were dominated by other spirits. The publishing
houses have changed their commitment to serve the community in earlier time
to today's money making. I am rather pessimistic about a converse change to
this global trend if every of us just ignore this and even join the stream.
Probably it's time to make new journals with strong commitment to the
society.
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