QUOTE (TheChemist @ Jul 17 2005, 12:10 AM)
The authors neither pay nor get paid. Publishing is in their job description
Nature earns money from subscriptions by organizations/companies/universities,
and from advertisements (in print and on the web).
We need a "science napster", I tell ya
Actually many scientific journals now have "page charges" i e You have to pay to get published. I don't think Nature does bot I'm not sure, never having published anything in it. Nature
does permit putting a PDF version of a paper freely online, but only 6 months after publication.
There are already a number of "science napsters", however it is not just a matter of publishing just anywhere. Career-wise it is unfortunately at least as important
where you publish as
what you publish. And on the whole Nature and Science in that order are the two most prestigious places.
tty