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The drive to encourage medical journals to move in the direction of Open Access (OA) publishing started in the 2000s but it was not until the 2010s that OA publishing became a reality and has resulted in a transformation in the publishing scene across the globe. In the UK, this was initially encouraged by the publication of the Finch Report, commissioned by the UK Government, and further influenced by Plan S developed in Europe. The reasons for the drive to Open Access Publishing has been described but the unintended consequences were not predicted and are now coming back to bite us. Who expected that the business model for OA publishing would be so attractive, and who predicted how predatory journals would emerge out of the arena like a phoenix arising from the ashes? In relation to academic publishing, the most appropriate saying would now appear to be “We are living in interesting times.”
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Wallace, W.A., Ollivere, B. (2022). How Open Access Publishing Developed in the 2010s and the Potential for Publishing Misconduct. In: Faintuch, J., Faintuch, S. (eds) Integrity of Scientific Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99680-2_50
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