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That can be a lot of money. E.g. elsevier charges $5000 / article : http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes

And that is money that should be going to research.

I completely agree. I've said it before, pay-for open access (aka. "gold open access") needs to go die in a fire.

The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access repository.

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