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Science 25 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5790, p. 1031
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5790.1031c
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The American Physical Society (APS), a leading publisher of physics journals, will next month make full-text articles free for all to read online when they're published--for a one-time fee that anyone can pay. Many commercial and nonprofit journals already offer a pay-for-open-access option; some rely entirely on author fees so they can be free to all readers. APS said last week that it will begin by charging a per-article fee of $975 for its Physical Review journals and $1300 for the elite Physical Review Letters. APS Editor-in-Chief Martin Blume calls the move a step toward "possibly being fully open access someday." At least one institution wants to pay; CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, aims to raise funds to make all particle physics papers freely accessible.




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