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The Guardian presents a bit of a disjointed article on open access by taking the 'best bits' from live chats by experts on the subject. Thus we have Matthew Cockerill from Biomed Central saying "There are many ways to make an open access journal economically viable but a paywall isn't one of them," Steve Carson from MIT's OpenCourseware saying "it forces a discussion of intellectual property and the mission of the university in the dissemination of knowledge with a bit of urgency," and Amber Thomas of JISC saying "we are improving the way repositories work together and nurturing low cost journal platforms."

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