After reading your article about open access1, the first thing that comes to mind is: What can I do to help this movement?
I am a professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology and Exercise Physiology primarily involved in teaching. I often like to use examples of cutting-edge research in class. I come across many abstracts with relevant findings [but] I can't review the entire paper because my university doesn't have a subscription to that particular journal online. I find this appalling, especially since I teach at a relatively large state institution. In such cases how am I expected to fork over the money to get this information (several hundred dollars per year for many subscriptions or, for example $30 for a paper)? The fact that most of the research is publicly funded makes matters worse. If anything, online subscriptions should be, at the most, dirt cheap: How difficult can it ...
