[krull10]

Governments shouldn’t be paying significant amounts of tax payer money in page fees or open access fees. There should be a small cap on what will be paid, a requirement work is open access and deposited in public databases, and that’s it. It’s outrageous that tax payers are spending $5000 so someone can publish in a Nature type journal, and a waste compared to the additional postdoc and researcher salaries all these page charges could instead go to pay for. Unfortunately, the incentives in academia are such that as long as grants will provide such funds researchers will publish in these journals, so I think this can really only be fixed by funding bodies reducing the money they provide for publications. At the end of the day, I don’t think any journal should be getting more than ~$200-$300 for publishing an article. They simply don’t add much value at this point beyond the prestige of their name.