The Demise of Old-Fashioned Scholarly Journals? (I love the photo on the top of the article!)
Thoughts about the sea of information
Open Science like the start of Apple?
Nonsense, and pernicious nonsense at that.
Reading Journals Can Seriously Damage Your Wallet
Hybrid journals and the transition to OA
Oxford open access experiments
Oxford: Traditional Publisher Illustrates Leadership in Transition to Open Access
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