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Who will pay for open access?

A new biology journal, positioned to compete with the likes of Nature, Science and Cell, aims to reinvent the economics of high-quality scientific publishing. Declan Butler examines the bottom line.

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Butler, D. Who will pay for open access?. Nature 425, 554–555 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/425554a

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