Government influence favouring enhanced openness is rightly diversifying practices in science publishing.
The rise of the Internet in the 1990s helped spark a radical idea for turning primary science publishing on its head. If journals charged authors a fee to publish, instead of charging readers and libraries a fee to subscribe, said the advocates, published peer-reviewed papers could be provided free to anyone in the world.
This simple-sounding notion provoked visceral debate..........
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