TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors. - /r/todayilearned

"Journal prices are even more ludicrous. My university just stumped up nearly £1000 so that two papers I wrote would be available to the public straight away, rather than the usual (2 year?) embargo. And the funding I had to write the papers stipulates that everything has to be open access (fair enough, as it's public money) so that's just free money for the journals. And no, nobody is going to read them."