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| | Today, Science Europe is presenting a plan aimed at speeding up the transfer to open access to research results, Plan S. According to this plan, all scientific publications that report on the results of research financed by governmental funding bodies shall be openly accessible as from 1 January 2020. The Swedish Research Council agrees in principle to the aims of the plan.
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| | [AI summary] The article critiques the high costs of academic publishing, arguing that science funders should directly pay to create a network of prestigious, free 'diamond open access' journals to reduce dependency on commercial publishers.
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| | Is there a conflict between academic freedom and open access policies? Or do those policies potential serve to strengthen our freedom?
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| This is the problem: Academic research findings are currently distributed mainly in expensive journals and publications. These are hard to find with restricted access and either unavailable online or only accessible by subscription via another expensive paywall. Often the source data is omitted. This reduces the number and type of people who can benefit from [...]