Thanks for the post! Yeah, I have not thought about teaching itself and only focused on the research itself. You are right. Teaching materials also need open-access so more instructors can have access to the most updated information on certain topics and convey that information to the next generation.

Just read through all the comments. That’s interesting post and discussion. Want to add two thoughts here: 1) public universities tuition is still way cheaper than private universities due to the fact that public universities receive more federal/state funding. However, I agree it is expensive and I really hope there is some mechanism to bring down the cost; 2) International students are paying much more here for the education and all the service on campus. We can trace back to late 2000’s when the higher education funding shrinks and international students enrollment starts increasing dramatically.

Yeah… By the way he throwing out this result to the general public instead of getting reviewed by the peers, it is hard for me to trust whatever he said in his experiments. This is different from an emergency such as water crisis or disease breakout etc. This is more about a scientific progress in nature. As a matter of fact, he is attending the second gene editing summit in Hong Kong this past two days…

Hi Medha, thanks for your sharing. I am curious how much more typically the authors should pay if they want to pursue with the open-access journals? Also, this leads to the question how publishers maintain their models with only income from the charge of authors. One video in our background information mentioned that the business world will figure out a way to survive and thrive in the new model. However, I would like to explore more because if we showed them how to profit/maintain this business, publishers would be more willing to cooperate with researchers on the open-access journals. Thanks! – Yang