April 9, 2004

Getting What You Pay For When You Subscribe to a Journal

To the Editor:

Christopher A. Reed repeats arguments I have seen elsewhere favoring free (or very cheap) access to research articles and claiming that commercial publishers (Elsevier, in particular) are overcharging for access to their journals ("Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals," The Chronicle Review, February 20). The conclusion he draws from this is that researchers should boycott journals published by commercial entities.

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