JSTOR fees seem really high

[Tiberius Clodius Corvinus]

They have to pay the publishers holding the copyrights. There's the cost.

... although it is generally recognized that the publishing houses are charging too much. Of course they must make a decent profit to continue their company's activities, but the EU is now preparing measures that scientific and scholarly publications are not to be under embargo forever. It must be freely accessible online after about a year. However, the EU is taking its time, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is now asking people to sign a petition: [url:hcs61zjl]http://www.ec-petition.eu/[/url]

Hi Jona,

thanks for posting the link. I didn't know such petition existed and having seen its been almost a year ago, since they started it, I wonder why only 27.000 people signed.

I just signed and will email my fellow students to sign as well.