Blog description

Academics - astonishingly - have to write and review journal articles for free, or more accurately, at a cost to themselves (for example, fees for illustrations). So long as they belong to a university they can access articles online, but on leaving, most are cut off from such resources without ceremony, and are then required by publishers to pay £23 for sight of a single article. So publishers and universities benefit from free academic labour, then charge non-affiliated academics for seeing the results. This blog highlights this iniquitous situation and discusses solutions.