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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Open Access is one of the pillars of Open Science. In this episode I am talking to Jean-Claude Guedon from the University of Montreal (Canada). Jean-Claude is one of the authors of the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative from 2002. He is also an expert on scientific communication and its history.
Who better to take us through the road that led to the Open Access declaration, what has become of it and where (we hope) it will go.
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