My colleague and friend Thomas Kintaert brought this report to my attention just now:<br><h1 style="margin-left:40px" class="articleTitle">
Entire Field of Particle Physics Is Set to Switch to Open-Access Publishing
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<p style="margin-left:40px" id="articleDek">A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 
journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made 
immediately free on journal Web sites</p>
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By
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=3221">Richard Van Noorden</a>
and
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=3044">Nature magazine</a></span><span class="byline">
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</p><div style="margin-left:40px">Full text: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=entire-field-particle-physics-switch-to-open-access">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=entire-field-particle-physics-switch-to-open-access</a><br>

</div><br>This is a very interesting and important development, and one that we Indologists could consider emulating.<br><br>Best,<br>Dominik Wujastyk<br>