Comment Comment by musicale > asks research institutions around the world to underwrite the costs of publication for their affiliated authorsThe actual marginal cost for a digital publication is negligible, as demonstrated by arxiv.org, archive.org, and sci-hub.The reason why ACM and IEEE charge so much for digital library access is that they use the money for unrelated purposes. parent musicale 4 years ago
The actual marginal cost for a digital publication is negligible, as demonstrated by arxiv.org, archive.org, and sci-hub.
The reason why ACM and IEEE charge so much for digital library access is that they use the money for unrelated purposes.