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  Unlike the authors of books and magazine articles, who write their texts for royalty or fee income, the authors of refereed journal
  articles write them only for "research impact", which means for their effects on research and researchers. In order to reach
  researchers and to have an effect on their research (so the latter can use the findings in their own work), these refereed journal
  articles have to be accessible to their potential users. Hence, the idea that access to them should be toll-gated in any way makes as
  much sense as toll-gated access to commercial advertisements.
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  (reprinted in Current Contents 45: 9-13, November 11 1991).
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  Now. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/science.htm 
  
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  For-Free? Culture Machine 2 (Online Journal) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Varian/new1.htm
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  definitive version to appear in The Transition from Paper: A Vision of Scientific Communication in 2020, S. Berry and A. Moffat,
  eds., Springer, 2000. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/odlyzko0404.html 
  
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