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February 3, 2013 07:00 pm GMT

After Aaron, Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry

Magazine stackEditor's note:Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers.Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls, despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it.

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