Open Research in 2018, real or fake news? | Wonkhe | Analysis

"I don’t know how many swallows make a summer, but the European Commission (EC) now follows the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, the Irish Health Research Board, UCL and others in setting up its own open publishing platform. It is hard not to interpret this as a sign of increasing frustration on the part of research funders and institutions at the pace and cost of the change to open access. But is this the right move?"