Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing - Forbes
juschuetze's bookmarks 2016-06-14
Summary:
"Countless studies have attempted to discern the “true” cost of academic publication and attach dollar amounts to each individual stage of the publishing pipeline. However, at the end of the day, it is remarkable that in 2016 in an age when a myriad sites will host a PDF for free and most universities offer web hosting for scholarly publications, that scholars and their institutions still pay a fortune to make their knowledge available to the world."