The publishing of scientific research is not free. Historically, the burden of production costs has largely been placed on the shoulders of university libraries or persons paying tolls for access to individual articles. The price is high and has increased more dramatically than the Consumer Price Index. The average 2011 subscription rate to individual titles for Chemistry was $4044 and for Biology was $2167. The price of individual articles per download varies. For “Frontiers in Bioscience” it is $40 whereas for “Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy” it is $86. Years ago, in addition to staggering subscription costs borne by the university, scientists and laypeople trudged to the library with copy cards or coins to painstakingly copy articles relevant to them. Alternatively, corresponding authors were mailed postcards requesting reprints. These cumbersome practices are not consistent with today’s fast-paced research and were rendered obsolete by the Internet. Even before the advent of the Internet, these dissemination methods were seriously questioned. University libraries could not afford ever-rising subscriptions to all the journals that its researchers might need to read. This was dubbed the “serials crisis” and helped foster the current debate over free access to scientific publications.