Nature asks „Will the Gates Foundation’s preprint-centric policy help open access?“ while I am asking if this is already indicating the end of the traditional journal.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant holders to make their research publicly available as preprints, which are not peer reviewed. It will also no longer pay article-processing charges (APCs) to publishers in order to secure open access, in which the peer-reviewed version of the paper is free to read.