I'm not going to wade in and argue if one side is correct or not but the boycott of Nature Publishing Group by the University of California seems like it will ahve a tough time working as planned. The NIH open access initiative will help but the costs to getting papers by inter-library loan isn't going to be pretty. And, for some fields, NPG has a bunch of key journals. You can't know all of the literature but it won't be a pleasant experience to have trouble tracking down key papers.
Heck, jsut ask me about finding the original paper on pooled logistic regression. It was seriously not fun!
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