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Did you know that academic journals cost 156% more than they did ten years ago, even though the cost of producing them has gone WAY DOWN? That most research funded through university and taxpayer dollars have to be BOUGHT BACK by the university at extremely high prices? That your professors sometimes have to buy back the rights to their own articles to include in your coursepacks, which is part of the reason why they cost so much? That all of this could be greatly alleviated if professors just retained their own copyrights instead of signing them away to journals?

It's time to take a stand against rising journal and coursepack prices, and unfair monopolies on research paid for by taxpayers.

Learn more at www.taxpayeraccess.org, or take action by voting with your work: if you're writing a thesis, make it available to the world at www.hcs.harvard.edu/thesis.

To get involved at Harvard, check out Harvard College FreeCulture (www.hcs.harvard.edu/freeculture/).