Chemical Education Today
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Does Information Want To Be Free? Responses to a Recent Editorial on Open Access to JCE’s Published Articles Editor’s Note Last November in an editorial titled, “Does Information Want To Be Free”, I asked whether readers wanted this Journal to provide them with the highest possible quality and pointed
out that “high quality information needs to cost something”. Responses that were sent directly to me appear below.
Choosing To Pay for High Quality
Literature Cited
In response to John Moore’s editorial in November 2008 (1), I would like to say that I prefer to pay and have access to the best, most detailed, and highest quality information I can get. For my entire teaching and research career I have relied on the high quality information I get from JCE and I worry about the possibility that this standard may decline. As a parallel I can relate that I subscribed for many years to an American scientific diffusion journal (one that was very well-known and respected) until 1990, when that journal lowered its scientific standards. The level was so low that I could not read it any more. I never subscribed to it again.
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1. Moore, John W. J. Chem. Educ. 2008, 85, 1467. Roberto de Barros Faria The author is an associate professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Departamento de Química Inorgânica, Instituto de Química Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro CP 68563, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 86 No. 9 September 2009 • www.JCE.DivCHED.org • © Division of Chemical Education
