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Where Does the Free Online Scholarship Movement Stand Today?
Peter Suber, Earlham College

There's a lot happening these days to create free online access to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles. Here are some of the more significant trends: More disciplines are setting up preprint archives. More open-access peer-reviewed journals are popping up in every field. Most of these are online-only. But journals like BMJ [British Medical Journal] and Cortex show that even the costs of a print edition do not foreclose the possibility of free online access to full text. More universities are supporting institutional self-archiving for their research faculty....

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