"Poor countries in trouble through open access - UT News

"Make scientific articles free calling proponents of open access in science. But this ideal may paradoxically increase the gap between rich and poor. Before that warns professor of philosophy of language Martin Stokhof. He expressed strong support for open access and president of a European Working Group on Open Access, but he does see some practical problems. The idea behind open access is that universities no expensive subscriptions take more, but pay for publications that everyone should read. 'But authors from poor countries that publications may not be able to pay,' thinks Stokhof ..."