Open access and closed options

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Let's start with some news. We recently announced that EMBO, together with Nature Publishing Group, will launch next year an open‐access, author‐pays journal called Molecular Systems Biology . Two reasons guided our decision: we believe that journals publishing data‐intense papers—such as those in systems biology—should be open access so that the information can be shared and mined by the scientific community; furthermore, it will be an interesting experiment to see if the open‐access, author‐pays model of publishing will be economically viable for a not‐for‐profit scientific organization such as EMBO. Indeed, the topic of open access continues to rumble in the background of the scientific world. It was again the subject of various—and, as always, passionate—presentations in Stockholm at the recent EuroScience Open Forum meeting. Of course, the arguments for open access remain convincing: we as scientists clearly want everyone to be able to access and read the results of our work, which society has financed. Open access—that is making papers freely available on the internet—is the way to achieve this. End of story? Well, not quite. Even if we cherish the notion of free …

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