"Говорят, готовится приказ, - сказал Стоян. - У кого меньше пятнадцати статей,
все пройдут обработку."
From the life of one scientific institution.
Iceland is a unique country in many respects. One of these respects is that the
whole Icelandic population (technically, any machine with Icelandic IP) has
access to a bundle of journals subscription normally (i.e., in other countries)
available to academic institutions only. On August 29 2009, randomly browsing through the website of
Icelandic Consortia for electronic subscription,
I stumbled upon their internal stuff (available at the time at (now defunct)
http://hvar.is/upload/): offers from Springer, Elsevier, and the likes,
minutes of meetings for 2005-2009, prices, etc. I guess this provides a rare
(though outdated by now) glimpse into what is going behind-the-scenes in the hot
issue of journals pricing.
Around the same time, I tried to submit it to Wikileaks, and had a brief email
exchange with (now-famous) Julian Assange, but he quickly lost interest:
after all, as we all know now, he is after much bigger things.