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Actually for high quality scientific research, that doesn't seem to bad when you consider people will drop 10-20 dollars to go see a movie. Too bad the authors
by bitJericho 11y ago
Actually for high quality scientific research, that doesn't seem to bad when you consider people will drop 10-20 dollars to go see a movie. Too bad the authors don't see any of it.
- edraferi 11y agousually I'd agree, but I think academic publishing is different from purely artistic work. Research is funded up front by grants. The resulting product is a piblic good, and should be made available to the publoc with zero margin. If the research has practical value, the authors can capture that through patents and similar systems.
- olalonde 11y agoI agree but one counter argument is that a lot of research is already paid for by government.
- new299 11y agoIn the case of JMLR it's not 10USD per-view. It's 10USD per article published. I'm not sure if that was clear from the comment above. Commercial journals generally charge far more than that per-view. JMLR charge nothing per-view. When open access, commercial journals will often charge 1000s to publish an article (compared to the 10USD JMLR says it costs them).