Open Access Open Knowledge
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The Battle Between the Different Philosophies
publishers found a nice way of making money by actually not charging people who access the articles but people who write them. Universities have to pay for them just as they have to paid for subscriptions and now must also pay for publishing. Publishers realized that open access was not a threat it was an opportunity. It was a way to invent new sources of revenues from funding agencies which began to feel that they had to get involved in helping researchers getting published.
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