(p2pnet.net): Cross-country licensing such as the Canadian Research Knowledge Network provide licenced database access to thousands of journals for 650,000 university researchers and students. Coursepacks are giving way to database-generated course reading lists that build on this form of licenced access. Beyond licenced databases, the growth of open access now means that there are over 5,000 open access journals and about 20 percent of the world’s peer reviewed journals are open access. Supporters of Access Copyright often claim that they support the right of an author to choose where they publish and under what terms they make their work available. Yet when researchers make their work freely available, it is derided as a cheap alternative.
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