He saw the future of Brain Research as going toward genomics, chromosomics, proteinomics, but it obviously never occurred to him that as long as the NIH and industry were paying his bills that he ever had to consider the science of economics. He should be generous with his praise and Elsevier can only be grateful to an academic with his stature who has such entrepreneurial instincts. NIH grants any way he wished. The speech reinforced my opinion that while the users of research journals are the research faculty, the customers of research journals are libraries and the fact that their interests are not identical provides a gap that publishers exploit. I only stayed for part of the final speech by Dr. Winston from the Library of Congress who discussed the technological changes at the LC over the past few years.
Authors are free to share their own works with colleagues and students without charge.
Elsevier is committed to permanent electronic archiving of materials. Elsevier will expand electronic journals. Elsevier will continue to expand electronic delivery of journal articles. Elsevier will adhere to standards in electronic formats. I welcome all of these promises because they are an improvement over what the journal publishers were saying even last year.