An increasing amount of traditional scientific journals are today migrating to the Open Access publishing model. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (QHW) started as such a traditional journal, published by Taylor & Francis with four issues per year but with access to the content only for subscribers. Generally university libraries, at least partly, paid for researchers’ access to scientific publications. However, because of the universities’ increasingly restricted budget, the libraries had to cut back on their collections and prioritize journals serving their researchers’ particular interests, omitting not-so-relevant publications. Unfortunately, therefore, the highest priority was seldom multidisciplinary journals, and even less so multidisciplinary journals with a focus on qualitative studies on health and well-being.
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