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It's also a much greater undertaking for any individual person to purchase one of those subscriptions, I don't think I've ever heard of a single person doing so

• privong 11y ago
  > Anyone have any rough numbers on what this would cost Joe Schmo to buy? There's a huge variety. An individual subscription to Nature is $200/year[0], but they often charge $30 for electronic access to individual articles. An institutional subscription to the Astrophysical Journal is $2000/year[1], though if you're a member of a professional society, you can buy an individual, electronic subscription for $25[e.g., 2]. As a point of comparison within astronomy, a similarly prestigious journal, the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society institutional subscription is $9400/year[in the csv link in 3]. [0] http://www.nature.com/ecommerce/subscribe.action?productId=nature http://www.nature.com/ecommerce/subscribe.action?productId=n... [1] https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0004-637X/page/Pricing%20and%20ordering https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0004-637X/page/Pricing%20... [2] https://aas.org/individual-membership/dues-subscription-fees https://aas.org/individual-membership/dues-subscription-fees [3] http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/pricing-and-ordering/institutional-pricing.html http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/pricing-and...