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> It’s like if I said “i want to be able to attend the most prestigious school but I don’t want to pay for it”.

I think it's interesting to note that in many European countries the top schools are free to attend.

Sure, but it's because the gov't subsidizes the cost of schools. Are you suggesting they subsidize the cost of journal subscriptions to the point they are free?

That is what has occurred in Uruguay and Egypt. If that grants universal access to the people, then it is a solution. The problem with that model, though, is that governments are then double-paying in many cases. First by paying for the research that birthed the paper and then by paying for access to the paper that resulted from the research the government paid for.

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