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Because a lot of scientists work at large research universities that simply subscribe to the complete set of Elsevier and Springer and so don't see the problem.
by jhbadger 9y ago
Because a lot of scientists work at large research universities that simply subscribe to the complete set of Elsevier and Springer and so don't see the problem. I'm a big fan of open access, even though I'm at an institution now that subscribes widely, because I worked for a decade at a small research institute that ran up against paywalls constantly.
- Fomite 9y agoBeyond not seeing it as a problem, it is a genuine cost. A publication in PLOS Medicine costs ~ $3000. That's a postdoc's laptop. That's several conferences. And it's a single-digit percentage of my startup funding. It's not insane to not pay that if you don't have to.