A STEM student at the University of Connecticut, or a student in any discipline have had to utilise online journal articles at some point. Hitting the ‘paywalls,’ as they have come to be known, is probably just as common as doing research itself. Any student that has ever used Google Scholar or the library databases knows that sometimes they just do not have access to all of the knowledge they want to possess for a given project, simply because there are not enough funds to pay for every single journal out there. What most students do not know is that the thousands of dollars required to buy these journals do not go where most would expect it to go. When they subscribe to journals, the money paid to the publisher is not given to the authors and researchers of the articles they are publishing, nor is it given to the individuals editing the articles. Instead, the money goes directly to the publisher.
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