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'The Impact of the Humanities: or, What's Next for Open Access,' Berlin 5 Open Access conference, Padua, Italy, 19-21 September 2007, organized by the Max Planck Institute.

BioMed Central Busts Several Myths About Open Access:

1. Myth:  The cost of providing Open Access will reduce the availability of funding for research.
   
   
2. Myth: The public can get any article they want from the public library via interlibrary loan.
   
   
3. Myth: Patients would be confused if they were to have free access to the peer-reviewed medical literature on the web.
   
   
4. Myth: Open Access threatens scientific integrity due to a conflict of interest resulting from charging authors
   
   
5. Myth: Poor countries already have free access to the biomedical literature.
   
   
6. Myth: Traditionally published content is more accessible than Open Access content as it is available in printed form.
   
   
7. Myth: Publishers need to make huge profits in order to fund innovation.
   
   
8. Myth: Publishers need to take copyright to protect the integrity of scientific articles.
   

From Open Access Now, published online by BioMed Central.

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