The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles / quote 8 of 8
Paid APCs should mean open machine access
High Article Processing Charges (APCs) have been paid for many of these articles to be available under a licence permitting re-use, such as CC-BY. We believe that restricting machine access to such articles violates the principles of openness and is at minimum unfair with respect to the authors who paid the APC.