Academic articles online
This is just to bitch, just real quick while my university's library is having ridiculous sign-in issues, about how the pricing model for online access to individual articles from journal is stupid. It makes sense, in a way, that those journal cost 8 million dollars, because schools are buying them to give access to everyone. They can handle (sometimes) the cost. But when you get to one-off copies of single articles, you KNOW it's not an institution buying them. It's a professor, or a grad student, or an ambitious undergrad, or maybe just someone who is unaffiliated with any school system at all but just wants to educated themselves (that used to be me when I worked at Identity). In those cases, charging $34 for a single article is totally prohibitive.
I love Google Scholar and the increasing proliferation of Open Access work. I'm totally in favor of stuff being free. But I don't think it's totally unreasonable to ask for a couple of bucks for the work a bunch of people put into writing and disseminating that stuff. That said, the current pricing model? Redonkulus. No one's gonna do it so it doesn't make any money anyway.
/rant.
I love Google Scholar and the increasing proliferation of Open Access work. I'm totally in favor of stuff being free. But I don't think it's totally unreasonable to ask for a couple of bucks for the work a bunch of people put into writing and disseminating that stuff. That said, the current pricing model? Redonkulus. No one's gonna do it so it doesn't make any money anyway.
/rant.