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.
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Smith, C. Open access: Hard on lone authors. Nature 487, 432 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487432e
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