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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by romwell on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:23PM (#17658559)
>I think you're downplaying the actual costs they have quite a lot

Yeah right, that's why SciHub[1], which does it for free has been nearly impossible to maintain. The main difficulty is the cost of hosting, and not at all the mounting pressure from the litigation from the publishing industry.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by dingo_bat on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:37AM (#17659971)
I assume you're being sarcastic?
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