Just in case someone doesn’t know it at this point: email the authors directly, they will be more than happy to send you a copy of their paper. The authors don’t get a penny from the sale of the article and they are basically rewarded for citations, so it’s in their interest to spread the word.
This is not the price to access a paper. This is the price to publish one paper.
Oh, I missed that due to the /r/uselessredcircle (uselessBlackCircle in this case)
Additionally, you can find the preprint of many articles for free (e.g., arXiv). Not the exact article, but often very similar.
(Only tangentially related to the meme, which is about publishing costs.)
Good point, check pre-prints like arXiv or yarr like scihub before checking with the author, maybe save you both some time.
The price tag is a joke.
The whole “open access” is a joke
Well at least the vast majority of that money will go towards supporting this kind of research… right?
Published by Elsevier their parent company 2023 financials: https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/reports/annual-reports/2023-ar-sections/relx-2023-financial-review.pdf nothing noted as funding research or science that I can see, it would probably eat into their 33% profit margins or 800m stock buybacks.
The profit margins on these journals are like 40% btw