It's not mostly about the price (you can always find a paper from friends etc if you're determined). It's about the availability of vast amounts of text to anal

It's not mostly about the price (you can always find a paper from friends etc if you're determined). It's about the availability of vast amounts of text to analysis and mining. Who knows how many new insights we have already lost (mainly in the life sciences) from this absurd system that everyone seems to hate yet nobody is willing to change. btw, frontiers (http://frontiersin.org/ http://frontiersin.org/) is another great open access set of journals