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July 15, 2019 MacKenzie Smith, _University of California, Davis_ The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a
painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid. April 10, 2019 Brenda Wingfield, _University of Pretoria_ and Bob Millar, _University of Pretoria_ An urgent
discussion is needed around the cost of research publications. March 8, 2019 MacKenzie Smith, _University of California, Davis_ Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access
to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor. November 6, 2017 Patrick Burns, _Colorado State
University_ In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something’s
got to give. October 24, 2016 Donald A. Barclay, _University of California, Merced_ The public pays for academic research and then again to read the published results of that research. A new
initiative proposes a radical Open Access model. Can it work?