This is only one symptom of a much larger disease -- the exorbitant cost of higher education -- very little of which money ends up in professors' or grad students' pockets. The solution to the journal problem is "just say no" & publish only in open journals. Tell your politicians to make govt-sponsored research available to all w/o the Elsevier tax. Make your research available via Wikipedia & the Khan Academy. It took years, but U.S. patents finally became available on the internet, so there is no reason why other innovation publications can't do the same. At 02:37 AM 3/16/2012, Joerg Arndt wrote:
[OT, because this is not a "fun" subject]
http://www.thecostofknowledge.com/
I got aware of this through the (German, not in-depth) news article: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,820819,00.html