Silicon Valley futurist, Steward Brand, states that all information should be made available for free. But his corollary is that the information wants to be expensive because it is so valuable. There is always a value chain, and costs are incurred, on a continuing basis, whatever the platform that houses it. Someone somewhere is paying for open access publishing. Open access, which stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse of published materials, took off in 2012 and is driven by the promise of wider exposure of articles that can be freely read by anyone connected to the Internet.
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