Today’s Solutions: August 14, 2026

Universities spend millions every year on academic journal subscriptions for their students and faculty. And while these costs may be manageable for some, they are prohibitive for many less wealth scholars and institutions around the world. That’s why a group of European science funders is going after publishers and demanding them to make it free for the public to read published research papers by 2020. Here’s how the coalition of science funders is mounting pressure on publishers to make research papers free.

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