is [that] high of a fee really needed? Possibly. Here's a table of costs for different publishers http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.ht

is [that] high of a fee really needed? Possibly. Here's a table of costs for different publishers http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.h... but keep in mind that it is way more expensive to run a highly selective journal like Nature because they reject the vast majority of papers that get submitted.