“Researchers in Malaysia have the impression that you pay to publish in open-access journals, which is associated with predatory journals. I do not want the quality of my work to be judged like that,” says Sivapragasam, who is now a master’s student in science communication at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

even Nature’s parent company wants payment for open-access publishing.

Also open-materials used to be the norm until the Harvard mouse patent came in and others following put the whole thing into jeopardy.