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Philip Campbell said that the experience for readers and researchers of having research freely available is "very compelling".
At its core, open access is about making the results of research freely available to anyone.
But Science misread the cause, which was not about making the results of research freely available via open access, but the meltdown of the peer review system.
Ironically, the policy environment in the global north, which will see more northern research freely available to all online, may well mean that local research will become invisible.
As far back as 2004, former Guardian education editor Donald MacLeod described open access as the practice "which would make scientific research freely available on the internet".
Earlier this month, research indicated that Britain is already in the vanguard of the drive to make academic research freely available to anyone over the internet.
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Still, making only research licenses freely available might not assuage all concerns.
The journal has taken no position on the Research Works Act, which would forbid government agencies from requiring that federally financed research be freely accessible online.
With the publication of the Finch report earlier this year and the UK government's announcement to commit £10m to help make research findings freely available, there has been a gear shift towards a more rapid movement into an open access world for the publishing of scholarly information.
Tools to make research data freely available are vitally important to the open science movement.
A new open-access scientific journal hopes that paying peer reviewers a little hard cash will help strengthen efforts to make research results freely available to the public.
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