Comment on EU ready to back immediate open access without author feesparentComments−incompatible3yGovernments already fund so much science, funding a few free journals doesn't seem like much of a stretch.Not much different to Australia funding Trove.https://trove.nla.gov.au/−pcrh3yApparently PubMed Central, which has a very large repository of articles (millions), costs about US$ 3 million per year to provide free-to-user access. They only provide what publishers allow, however.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/faq/
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Governments already fund so much science, funding a few free journals doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
Not much different to Australia funding Trove.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Apparently PubMed Central, which has a very large repository of articles (millions), costs about US$ 3 million per year to provide free-to-user access. They only provide what publishers allow, however.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/faq/