[Irtalk] The Real Reason Journal Articles Should Be Free - Slashdot

[Hilton Gibson]

And that, in the end, is the real reason journal articles should be free.
Not because the U.S. government is making it a condition for
taxpayer-funded research, although that is a welcome development. But
because there's no part of the process that should cost very much to begin
with, if article authors and peer reviewers are already being paid by their
employers.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/01/1331244/the-real-reason-journal-articles-should-be-free
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