Lack of funding. Personally I think most scientific publishing should be publicly funded by tax dollars as it eventually benefits everyone, but such is life.

Lack of funding. Personally I think most scientific publishing should be publicly funded by tax dollars as it eventually benefits everyone, but such is life. To go out on a further, yet still related tangent here is a humorous (read: sad) plot (http://commontragedies.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-question-of-priorities/ http://commontragedies.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/a-question-o...)