There are a lot of things that have been written, and I only have access to a small portion.
Today I was reading an academic paper, and wanted to read one of the papers it cited, published in 1996 by a well-known academic publishing house. I looked the journal up on my university library’s website, and found that it was available. When I clicked on it, however, I discovered that it was only able to access articles published after 1997. At this point I gave up, Googled the author, found his website and e-mail address, and requested a copy directly from him. If he had been hit by a bus yesterday, I would be out of luck.
I wish the open-access movement success.
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