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http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001122101t.htm

Publisher of Free Online Science Journals Will Charge Authors a 'Processing Fee'
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

An online publisher that offers its science journals free on the Internet announced this week that it will soon ask authors to pay a $500 fee to have their articles published. The publisher, BioMed Central, says it hopes other online publishers will follow suit, and that colleges will soon routinely pick up the tab to have their professors' work published in freely-accessible online forums....

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