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The Cost of Accessing Academic Research

By Brian Wolfman

In the legal world, we've become accustomed to getting most law review articles for free on SSRN. It doesn't seem that easy in the world of science. The publisher of the prestigious scientific journal Nature wants to up its on-line access fees for its publications to the University of California to more than $1 million a year. As you might imagine, there's been a reaction from scientists: Isn't it a little nuts to pay through the nose for our own research? So, among other things, scientists are trying to make use of a free on-line research database and are considering a boycott of Nature. Read about it in this LA Times article.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).