EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees
To this day, I still do not understand what can be a reasonable cause for a paper to cost &gt;$50 just to read it. Besides greed of course. Editors review paper for free, authors pay to get paper published, taxpayers fund the research. What do the journal&#x27;s staff actually do that worth that kind of money?<p>All those &quot;publisher&quot; middlemen can go eat dirt and I would be happy to shovel more dirt on them until they are 6 feet under. They do no work, take all the profit, and obstruct research and the spread of knowledge. Those are some of the worst scums of capitalism.