The Gates Foundation is declaring that this concept of publishing embargoes — intended to
protect journal subscriptions — is no more than a transitional stage on the road to a state when research and its underlying data «will be accessible and open immediately.»
Some other papers, published in traditional
subscription - based
journals, are made freely available on an author's website or through an institutional or government archive, often after a 6 - or 12 - month «embargo» imposed by the publisher to
protect subscription revenue.