How many times have you seen tipping points? Many times, no doubt. How many times-and tell the truth-have you seen a tipping point coming or even recognized its occurrence clearly? Lots of us have just known in our heart of hearts that something would triumph some day, but usually, when it actually does, we seemed to have been looking out the window at something else. This could explain why we're all not as rich as our insights should have made us. Well, we all know that open access (OA) will achieve its tipping point and-dare I say it?-replace print publications and, more importantly, traditional print publishers. But it will happen in due time. That's always the ringer-timing.
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