I think the cost is ridiculous and it is obvious that the publishers think such costs are going to be covered by grants or in some other way expensed. They take no account of the possibility that a student may need an article for their (unfunded) research or a professor may want to use one for a class. There is no way someone is going to pay that kind of money for a few pages of text if someone else (the grant funder) isn't paying for it. If there is time, they will get it from interlibrary loan. If there isn't time, they will usually just try to find something else. I have to wonder if they wouldn't make more money in volume if they actually lowered the price to where people might actually consider purchasing individual articles. Maybe they are afraid of what happened to the music industry when iTunes allowed the purchase of singles.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected] (479)524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman "The LORD detests both Type I and Type II errors." Proverbs 17:15 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12352 or send a blank email to leave-12352-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
