Publish or Perish - Will publishing in Nature or Science make your career? (Feb/19/2009 )
bob1 on Mon Feb 7 00:09:00 2011 said:
If you think you are being gouged for publishing, you should see what is charged for library subscriptions (as in the library has the subscription) for these journals - for Nature and Scientific American only a site licence for a middle size Uni (12,000-20,000 people) is US$11,552.00 per year.
Although, its a dollar per person, I strongly support the idea that all publications must be available for free. Any person with an internet connection must be able to access information he wishes to. The journals can always make money from advertising to cover its maintenance costs.
With so many users, if Facebook can be free, then why not these sites. Comparatively, its a very small portion of the population that they are catering to
-gt_ameya-