3007623878_76000fc4e2_nThe brand new winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Randy Scheckman has declared his boycott of the three most prestigious scientific journals: Nature, Cell and Science. Scheckman has stated that his laboratory will no longer submit its articles to these journals (see The Cost of Knowledge” by a group of academics or Harvard University who are clamoring to promote open access to knowledge clearly show the way. Logically, the advances will be very small as long as publishing in prestigious journals has the same incidence that it has on the CV of the researchers.

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