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Actually, the cost could be very great, indeed - if it were seen to be infringing copyright. At least one of the journals in which I publish will not allow us to host our own pre-print papers, while other journals do. The journal holds the copyright, as I understand it.... On 13 December 2010 00:14, Morgan Leigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am not under any delusion that such things are gratis. But if we can > make them libre then we can at least work on facilitating access for as > many people as possible without commercial profits being factored in. > Can we as a species afford to restrict our body of knowledge in the way > we do know? Our next Einstein may be languishing in some poor nation > that can't afford such access... > > On the other hand, the cost to each academic of hosting a web site for > their work is so small that if we all hosted our own work then there > would be no need at all to charge others for access. Libraries expenses > for accessing work would then be seriously reduced as they would only > have to afford the cost of a content aggregation system, and not > licensing fees. > > Regards, > > Morgan Leigh > PhD Candidate > School of Sociology and Social Work > University of Tasmania > -- Dr. Janet Goodall Research Fellow Institute of Education University of Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wie/aboutus/