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A Californian open-access deal could herald the sunny future that reformers have been dreaming about
Academic publishing was for the longest time a rather staid and slow-moving business. Things are changing fast these days, though.
Take the recent news that the University of California (UC) system is expanding its open-access agreement with publishing big fish Springer Nature to include Nature, the company’s eponymous and most prestigious journal.