Unfortunately the situation is far worse in other fields of knowledge. Nature magazine got in a big fight with the University of California last year when they

Unfortunately the situation is far worse in other fields of knowledge. Nature magazine got in a big fight with the University of California last year when they tried to charge more than $1 million for the institution's subscription[1] (this for a journal written and refereed by volunteer labor), and the individual subscriptions are also outrageous. It costs a lot of money to be able to stay on the forefront of human knowledge, even though the producers of that knowledge don't see a red cent. [1]http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/university-of-california-conside.html http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/university...