Rejected petition Scientific journals should allow open access

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Scientists pay private organisations to access other scientists research. This money does not go back into science but into private companies.

We believe this is unfair and restrictive to scientists.

A typical example of the problem is that one university pays to carry out research and then another university pays to access the results.

We believe the government should put pressure on scientific journals to allow open access.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 24 November 2011
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