[igornotarobot]

> Just friendly remember that Open access publishing is the new business model that is more lucrative for publishing industry and it is basically a tax on research activities but paid to private entities and mostly paid by taxpayer money...

While I do not disagree with this statement, this makes a significant difference for the citizens who do not happen to work in academia. Before open access, the journals would try to charge me $30-50 per article, which is ridiculous, it's a price of a textbook. Since my taxes fund public research in any case, I would prefer to be able to read the papers.

I would also love to be able to watch the talks at academic conferences, which are, to very large extent, paid by the authors, too.

[bigfishrunning]

Where are you getting such inexpensive textbooks???

Kidding, i agree $30-50 per article is outrageous.

[stuffn]

Yeah was about to say the last textbook I paid for was $380 dollars and it was a custom edition where the author was also the professor.

The entire education system is a racket.