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Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community

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Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield 		Mail this story
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Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years, the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.

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beirwin ·
Let's hope that that Open Access puts an end to the tyranny of the monopolistic academic journals and their outrageous page charges.

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