A portion of the Great Plains encompassing 48 counties was found to have no ILIs at all, leaving more than 327,000 people with limited access to informal STEM learning.
Most U.S. journals ask for around US$6,000 or lower for OA publication, and the high cost of the new agreement has already generated discussion online, although Nature argues it is justified.
"Given such encouraging evidence of the effectiveness of community college promise programs on initial college enrollment, working to protect them should be among the top priorities of policymakers."
