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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by denzil_correa on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:12PM (#16736600)
> The alternative business model that the world is moving to is Open Access.

That's one of the possible alternative, not the only alternative. Another alternative would be to have peer review as done today where authors pay for PDF hosting, server maintenance costs etc. and not the cost of "publishing" as in the traditional sense.

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Re:French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Jour... by fnordsensei on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:40PM (#16737762)
Agreed, clearly not the only model. But it's the one that seems to be gathering the most momentum at the moment.
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