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what's the progress on open access in EU? I can't find any articles mentioning if it's already required or if/when it will be

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Don't know about EU in general.. but my articles published in Springer is open access with the German initiative DEAL. I don't know if that counts as open access as the German government is the one paying for it.

So the taxpayer - i.e., you (and 82 million other people) - is paying... and your salary was probably already paid by the government if you are working at a university?

I can imagine better ways to spend the money than buying open access right from publishers - though the current German government certainly has found even worse ways to waste money...

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