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Who pays the hosting fees?
by pithon 14y ago
Who pays the hosting fees?
- a_bonobo 14y agoHosting fees by who? Open Access journals like PLoS are usually paid by the institute who wants to publish, it costs around $2000-$3000 per paper. In a lot of cases, this cost is carried by a OA-policy or a university's grant for OA-related costs. If this policy is successful, I guess the tax-payer will carry these costs.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoThis is seriously the worry people have? Scribd hosts documents for free. Academia.edu hosts documents for free and in fact ENCOURAGES academics to post papers there. If a website is willing to host the papers for free versus having a system where we spend millions on research so that journals can put it behind their paywall I feel like the future has written itself already.
- pithon 14y agoFrom the petition: "Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet" I'm just pointing out that requiring it to be posted on the internet requires someone to host it.
- CamperBob2 14y ago(Shrug) Any research worth paying for is going to cost a million times more than hosting the resulting documents. I don't follow you.
- femto 14y agoThe public? The public has just stumped up the cash for the research, so adding the cost of hosting the resulting papers for perpetuity would be a negligible addition to the original grant.