I received a newsletter from the publisher Elsevier today.

In the e-mail there is a link to an article on their website: "Open Access The choice is yours - Open Access options at Elsevier".

Basically, when i click on the subpage "information" it says that when you publish an article at Elsevier, you can pay 3000 $ US so that it becomes available for free to everyone.

So expensive!

For those of you who don't know, there is more than 8000 researchers that have started to boycott Elsevier journals a few days ago:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/316294/20120319/researchers-boycott-elsevier-open-access-journals.htm
http://the-scientist.com/2012/02/28/elsevier-abandons-anti-open-access-bill/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2012 07:01AM by webmasterphilfv.

sorry sir
but could not get

what will be the benefits?

Ok. I will explain.

Elsevier is a publisher. It publishes several journals.

But to access the articles, users needs to pay or your university need to pay them so that you can access the articles for free.

Now, consider that you are an author that publishes an article in an Elsevier journal. Elsevier offers that you pay 3000 $ US so that your article become free to everyone (users don't need to pay for your article anymore).

In my opinion, i think that it is very expensive.

ok

but which author will do like this? to make free to other he has to pay so much money. i think no one will do things like this.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/23/2012 11:46AM by Dvijesh88.

Yes. I think that it is ridiculous.

I am confused. You like a scientist did some research and found a new algorithm.
And you have to pay for publishing?
I thought, that you will get a money from selling an article. Because an article are not free generally.
So who got money from selling?
Why do you want publish articles?

Yes... that is right.

- researchers do the research
- researchers write the article
- other researchers review the papers

and.... the publisher make the money by selling your article to other researchers!