Interesting take by Cancer Research UK:

"We need efficient scholarly communications to spread scientific ideas via a fair economic model. We currently don’t have that. The #openaccess movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…"

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/why-we-wont-be-funding-open-access-publishing-any-more/

"Ceasing to fund open access in the way we currently do will save us £5.2m of donors’ money over the next three years."