This is a really great posts, which shed light on a really important problem in the academic community.
There are a lot of researches out there throughout the world associated with for example universities and organizations who doesn't have to resources to pay for access to closed access research articles. So it's likely that brilliant researches in many countries are working on problems already solved by researches elsewhere, but the for former researchers have no way of accessing the closed access papers and thus no way of gaining knowledge about those papers.
So open access journals are critical for research results being accessible to all researchers, regardless of the financial situation of the university or organisation they are associated with.
Yes. Actually the there is a growing trend among researchers and scholars towards open access. I hope someday that these journals will be open to anyone specially if its funded by the public.
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Please do keep posting on issues like this. These are the types of issues that really can make difference.
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