![]() ![]() It is clear that publishers need to check the authenticity and rigour of academic work – and, of course, to make money. Restrictions on scope, themes and article types are a way of maintaining a journal’s structure, providing consistency to readers and streamlining the review and editing processes. But one aspect of publishers’ stranglehold on information remains: their control over who can deliver it. While progress might be slower than some would like, it is advancing. ![]() ![]() The feeling that everyone ought to be able to read publicly funded research has encouraged academics, librarians and funders to begin removing subscription paywalls. Academic publishers’ traditional role as the gatekeepers of information has been challenged recently by the open-access movement. ![]()
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