The future of open access | Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-01-04
Summary:
"The European Union’s decision to make all papers produced in its members states available free of charge by 2020 promises to lend new steam to the slowly advancing open access movement, launched in the early 2000s to ensure public access to scientific production. It is estimated that only one in four new articles is now published in this format, while the other three, upon release, can only be read by subscribers or by users who pay to download them. The odds are even on which open access model will pull out ahead."