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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 13, 2011 - 10:15am.

You should see what it's like in the UK.
The research councils (government funded research bodies) have a 6 month open access mandate unlike the NIH's 12 month.
This means we are paying for immediate or 6 month deposit in UKPMC rather than getting it free after 12 months. And when one paper published by Elsevier costs $3000 to publish it really adds up.
Open Access is wonderful, but seeing that we are giving our work to these publishers for free, and even doing peer review for free and maybe editorial work, why are we then having to pay for Open Access as well?
Surely they should be paying the public purse back for the right to sell on our work for profit?

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