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Peter Suber, Unbinding Past Medical Journals: A proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important, a preprint. I put this online now partly to benefit from reader comments and partly to stir interest in the idea it describes. Abstract: "If an authoritative scholar or organization assembled a bibliography of the most important previously published research articles on a subject of urgent public need, such as the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, then the journals that published those articles might be persuaded to provide open access to them retroactively. This article discusses the costs and benefits to journals that participate in such a project and calls on scientists, journals, public-interest organizations, and foundations to experiment with such projects in order to accelerate research on topics where it is most needed." (OA News) Warum nur Medizin??