These private publishers are scamming US tax payers. Taxes pay for the research to be conducted and then in order for anyone to read it thousands of dollars mus

These private publishers are scamming US tax payers. Taxes pay for the research to be conducted and then in order for anyone to read it thousands of dollars must be paid to politically connected monopolies. The fact that this system is still operating 8 years after Aaron Schwartz's suicide is an indictment of American society.