Nowhere in your discussion on the future of author payments for open-access publication (Nature 486, 439; 2012) do you mention the predicament of the independent researcher or, for that matter, the scholar who is not funded by grants. I trust that the authors of the Finch report have borne this in mind.

Otherwise, the paywalls that prevent free access to knowledge for those who are not members of a university or other academic library will merely be replaced by article-publishing charges that prevent them from making a contribution.