Paying publishers for scientific papers.

[docj1]

I sure all of you have submented papers,and case studys for publication. I am having a small moral backlash from this. When you hand over the manuscript and sign the copy right form; your basicly giving it to them free of charge(especially for new scientist trying to get their foot in the door).I know a few nuclear scientist who work in government labs like MRI who go through the same thing. But they are funded by the tax payers and their toll is being given to publishes who sell the papers for 20$ a pop. I used grants and third party means of funding the last study i did back in "09" but still it feels wrong.

Is there a site or sites where one can publish their findings without publishers making money of your work?:confused:

[MarxSchmarx]

There are some journals that let the authors retain the copyright. The BMC series in medicine does this. Some journals like the Public LIbrary of Science (PLoS) ask authors to defray a part of the cost to put the publication in the public domain and seek to provide funding for authors who can't afford it. More and more journals are realizing that they can make more by having authors defray the cost of publication in exchange for making the article publicly available.

I agree though, for publicly funded science, it is absurd that there isn't free, easy access to the results. There is some controversy about this, however, because most government universities at least in the global north have libraries that are open to the public, and their online databases often allow people to access the articles. So in that sense they are "accessible".