The life and death of an open access journal: Q&A with Librarian Marcus Banks
31 March 2015) Marcus Banks is interviewed by Richard Poynder about the viability of open access journals. In the spotlight is Biomedical Digital Libraries, BDL, launched in 2003 by Yale University Medical Library and BioMed Central. Four years later, however, BDL succumbed to an increase in the cost of the article-processing charges it levied. This…