<div dir="auto">I think it's all about the pay wall. An easier way for the publishers might be to just publish the content under the desired license guidelines while retaining the rest of their staff within the walled garden. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Which is terrible because most of that research relies on freely available information. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Jan 2017 06:39, "Martin Gicheru via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Interesting choice of news source. Onto the topic, I wonder, do they limit the number of publications they can publish on, thus meaning if they limit themselves to some that don't have open access they'd disadvantage themselves? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Martin Gicheru <br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 Jan 2017 22:30, "Phares Kariuki via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-9021128104859777866quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/gates-foundation-research-can-t-be-published-in-top-journals-1.21299" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/gat<wbr>es-foundation-research-can-t-<wbr>be-published-in-top-journals-<wbr>1.21299</a></div><div id="m_-9021128104859777866m_-7354886472094463891AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-9021128104859777866m_-7354886472094463891AppleMailSignature">Interesting development <br><br>--<div>Phares </div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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