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Dec 18, 2007

Wired has a blog post about Bruce Alberts, the UCSF biochemist named as the next editor-in-chief of Science. In honor of Alberts' March 2008 appointment, a Wired reporter dug up a two-year-old interview of Alberts to give readers a sense of what kinds of policies he endorses. For one thing, it's not clear that Alberts will push for open access; he was part of a committee at PNAS that tried to make articles freely accessible after just two months but, when things didn't go as expected, switched back to the six-month access policy.

 

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