Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, a professor of computer science at Université Paris-Sud (France), has posted an overview of open access. From the post:
Can we get out of this situation? Can we escape both the escalating subscription fees of commercial editors and the dangerous author fees of prominent Open Access publishers? It is important to understand that the scientific community is largely at fault: we sit on the editorial boards of the very journals published at exorbitant prices by commercial publishers,f and we submit our best articles to these journals.
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