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SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a high-stakes fight in California that could shape the way that academic research gets read and published far beyond the West Coast.
The battle is pitting the University of California system against Elsevier, the Netherlands-based publisher of academic journals. At issue is how open-access research gets paid for.