The rising costs university libraries are paying to access journals have implications far beyond the ivory tower. From new cancer treatments to debates about foreign policy, new information enters the public domain through academic studies. Now libraries are having trouble affording the subscriptions.
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Science underpins the information people need to live their lives, and those facts must not be disputed. How does the scientific process incorporate peer review?