Academic Copyright: The bad news and the good news

The news isn’t all bad however, following last year’s Cost of Knowledge campaign centralised around the Elsevier Boycott, change has been in the wind. Academics are now moving towards open access in […]

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March 19, 2013

The news isn’t all bad however, following last year’s Cost of Knowledge campaign centralised around the Elsevier Boycott, change has been in the wind. Academics are now moving towards open access in droves. The graph above illustrates the number of articles published per year in open access journals such as PLOS, BioMed Central and Frontiers using a CC-BY license. Let’s hope the trend continues.

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