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And post links if you know any freebies as in:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
http://www.springer.com/computer/reading+room+welcome
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
arXiv.org An archive of e-prints maintained by the Cornell University Library.
Optics Express The open-access journal of the Optical Society of America
New Journal of Physics The open-access journal for physics.
Journal of the European Optical Society – Rapid Publications
At the same time there is a new trend in many journals nowadays to give to the authors the options to pay so as to have their articles available free of charge
I live very close to a university whose libraries are open to the public. Quite handy.
You can usually read them for free in most universities, since they are subscribed.
Their purpose is to make money: they are not there for the sake of helping spread research (although it is an "useful byproduct").
Their purpose is to make money: they are not there for the sake of helping spread research (although it is an "useful byproduct").
Because they are a business, and they need the money to survive. As far as I know, advertising isn't common in scientific journals. You can usually read them for free in most universities, since they are subscribed.
In the US, all works funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) are required to be made freely available to the public within one (?) year of publication. Given, that's only valid for the field of medicine, but there's been a push for all academic work funded bu the government to get similar treatment.
Extremely relevant - Ars Technica wrote an article on moving to open-access a few days ago. Open access is a movement in academia similar to open source in software, and is becoming more popular in fields like math and computer science.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/11/the-economic-cas...