UC takes scientific journals to task over fees

"But the dispute underscores a more far-reaching debate in academia: Whether the old business model of scientific publishing, in which researchers turn their work over to commercial entities for free, then pay through the nose to access it in print or online, hasn't reached the point of ultimate absurdity...."If you're willing to boycott Nature, ask for something important, and it's not a discount," says [Pat Brown, Stanford biochemist and co-founder of PLoS]. "What the UCs should do is say to the publishers, five years from now we will not be paying any subscriptions, and over those five years we will help you make the transition to the open access model."..."