Open is closed

摘要

From Rick Bradford There are probably few of us who pursue scientific work with no pay and no funding at all, but if open-access publishing of papers becomes universal (23 June, p 26) we will cease to exist entirely. Open access is actually a closed shop. Only those who belong to an academic establishment or research facility will be able to afford to publish. Everyone else will be disenfranchised, irrespective of merit. Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, UK