freedom of information?

if you're a student, you will have undoubtedly come across the situation whereby you find a brilliant article on the internet, love the abstract - think it would be perfect for your research or just interesting to read in general. You click... and it's in an access-restricted journal. Wonderful, if you belong to an institution that subscribes. Not so much if you don't. At around $15 an article (for one-day access, that you may not even be able to print thanks to DRM) it's simply makes better sense to keep looking for a different source.

Danah Boyd, a PhD student has written an article criticising this: Open Access Is The Future, and the comments below the article are also thought-provoking.

Open Access Journals already exist and allow access to article, topics, reviews of things you may normally not consider but by reading let you expand your horizons and broaden your mind. Find them here, at the Directory of Open Access Journals .