In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
For now, it’s going to be trickier for the University of California community to access some academic journals.
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The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires.
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Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
Should the public pay to read research?
Barry Silver
The public pays for academic research and then again to read the published results of that research. A new initiative proposes a radical Open Access model. Can it work?