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As readers, many scientists in Europe will welcome the news that most work will have to be published in open-access journals from 2020 (M. Schiltz Front. Neurosci.12, 656 (2018); see also Nature561, 17–18; 2018). But as knowledge producers, I fear that many more scientists around the globe are likely to be disenfranchised by richer nations, institutions and funding bodies.