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Program Description - Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) - UC Berkeley

In March 2005, a group of Berkeley faculty and administrators participated in a conference on the broad theme of the crisis in scholarly communication.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000165;jsessionid=0860F5A2F31E1D469770D4C881C0ABBF

Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing

Scholars write articles to be read—the more access to their articles the better—so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.