The future of Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica.

Recently, public availability of medical manuscripts free of charge was subject to a national discussion, pledging for obligatory open access journals (1). The idea is based upon the fact that many researches in medical sciences are (partially) funded by the government, and thus by tax payers. Therefore, all tax payers should have free access to the published results. However, the traditional publishing model is based on authors submitting their research results free of charge to a medical journal, and when accepted and published, only subscribers to the journal are allowed access to its conte... Mehr ...