
Re: Drain the bottles
And this: my academic institution demands that we open-access all publications (errm, good for them) - for which privilege, mainstream publishers charge $$$ on top of their already-exorbitant publication fees. My academic institution also does not provide funding to cover open-access fees. That is, presumably, supposed to come out of our grants (thanks, guys).
Just like here in South Bananistan. So I can choose to pay 2000+ CHF for a publication ("without publishing, how do we know your work's value?") in a Moderately Desirable Publishing Institute's journal or I could use the money to fill 3/4 of a small bathtub with Jameson, which is way more useful, at least in my lab.