[BigBobber]

The beginning of the end for academic publishing.

Shouldn't publicly funded research be posted for free on the Internet?

[bruinbirdman]

"University of California librarians are urging professors not to submit research to Nature or 66 related journals to protest a 400 percent increase in the publisher's prices."

Read an article about an author who convinced publishers to print up 4 or 5 of his titles over many years. I looked them up on Amazon. They are selling for about $9.99 now.

So he published his rejected titles (8 or 9) himself on Kindle for $2 a download and says he is making more than he ever did in his life.

yitbos

[elli1]

"The university is forced to give away information for free and then to buy it back at a huge markup," he said.

Interesting perspective. How does this square w/ the fact that most universities are largely underwritten by taxpayers? Or the perspective that publishing information/ research that was paid for w/ tax dollars is a matter of partial repayment of that debt?