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[From Google's English] "Mathematicians have now taken the matter into their own hands. On the homepage of the elite Cambridge University recently announced 39 renowned scientists that they have established two new magazines: the Forum of Mathematics, Pi, and the Forum of Mathematics, Sigma . Sigma Pi and publish articles on the one hand only, the high-profile researchers have examined previously. On the other hand, and this is special, this open-access journals are free. Scientists, students, libraries -  all can access the article .  In the first three years, the authors do not even participate in the cost, which takes on the Cambridge University Press. Later, scientists must publish their papers in Pi and Sigma have to bring money. But the price should correspond only to the real production costs.  As the golden road ('Gold OA') of this new publishing model is referred to, in which not the reader, but the authors bear the cost. 9,000 open-access journalsare now available worldwide, being added all. Many of them - such as Pi and Sigma - publishing work independently. Your message to the scientific publishers is clear: What you can, we can too! Even cheaper, better and fairer.  For decades, could require a lot of money on magazine subscriptions yield-oriented major publishers such as Springer, Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, although the scientists themselves were no fees. This will make the other founders. Therefore, individual scientists, scientific organizations or trade associations close together, establish - as the European Geoscientists - a whole bunch of open-access journals or establish new titles such as PeerJ or eLife . The goal is the same: research be made ​​freely available."