@deborahh @RustyBertrand I was on a paper published in Nature last year.
For making the PDF open-access on its website rather than charging people to read it, Nature asked the lead author to write a check for $11,000.
This is why astronomers have the arXiv open preprint server instead.
@michael_w_busch @deborahh
11k? That's unconscionable. Nature? I'm baffled.
I wish I could do a Harlan Ellison rant on command "Pay the writer"