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Open access and gloom and doom in academic publishing

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Sep. 24, 2012 — You may have read about the impending demise of commercial academic publishers. These rumors of their death, it seems, are greatly exaggerated. In July, the UK government announced that by 2014 “open access” publishing of results would be a condition of public funding of research; currently, of course, much of research is reported behind various paywalls in subscription journals. Proponents of open access viewed this as a victory for science, and indeed for all of society, which could only benefit from unfettered access to the latest scientific findings. The potential...Read full article

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