International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry and elsewhere regarding Open Access movements and the fact that some prestigious universities and research institutions declined to renew their subscriptions at major academic publishers. The most famous example here is the German Project DEAL 1 where dozens of leading German institutions quit their former agreements with global publishers to enter into a contract that entails golden Open Access (OA) function; meaning that the authors or their institutions will be charged to pay paper processing fees for the Publishers.
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