"The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls

The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls

Wired Top Stories by Joi Ito  / 

Scientific publishers charge so much that even Harvard can’t afford it anymore. A new publishing infrastructure could help.

"65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each

65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow  ,

Noting that "the web was built specifically to share research papers amongst scientists," Josh Nicholson and Alberto Pepe report on the dismal state of the web for accessing the most-cited scientific papers across the literature -- 65 of the top 100 most-cited papers being behind paywalls.