In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
The public pays for academic research and then again to read the published results of that research. A new initiative proposes a radical Open Access model. Can it work?