Just in case someone doesn’t know it at this point: email the authors directly, they will be more than happy to send you a copy of their paper. The authors don’t get a penny from the sale of the article and they are basically rewarded for citations, so it’s in their interest to spread the word.
The meme is the other way around though. The price tag in the meme is for researchers to pay so their article gets published in the journal. And it will be an open access article, so people who want to read it won’t have to pay anything. What’s so crazy about this is the huge prize tag for publishing your paper. It cannot be that costly to run an online journal.
Just in case someone doesn’t know it at this point: email the authors directly, they will be more than happy to send you a copy of their paper. The authors don’t get a penny from the sale of the article and they are basically rewarded for citations, so it’s in their interest to spread the word.
This is not the price to access a paper. This is the price to publish one paper.
Oh, I missed that due to the /r/uselessredcircle (uselessBlackCircle in this case)
Additionally, you can find the preprint of many articles for free (e.g., arXiv). Not the exact article, but often very similar.
(Only tangentially related to the meme, which is about publishing costs.)
Good point, check pre-prints like arXiv or yarr like scihub before checking with the author, maybe save you both some time.
Useful comment!
The meme is the other way around though. The price tag in the meme is for researchers to pay so their article gets published in the journal. And it will be an open access article, so people who want to read it won’t have to pay anything. What’s so crazy about this is the huge prize tag for publishing your paper. It cannot be that costly to run an online journal.