From Washington . Can confirm . <| sep |> Haha I see . I have studied in China , and I ' ve been well exposed to their disregard for cultural preservation when it ' s in the way of progress . On the other hand , their nationalist propaganda . Well it ' s incredibly effective and a little sickening too sometimes . And yes , absolutely ! Open access in itself is a much bigger piece of the problem than the language itself . I sat down with the head of a university ' s chemistry dept , discussing why the major publications charge so much for subscriptions . Apparently the big publishers don ' t really have any high expenses associated with the publication they receive entries for free , they don ' t pay the peer reviewers anything this might vary , and they don ' t spend so much on marketing because they are already sought after . The scientists don ' t get a royalty on the sale of the publication either ! I wanted to start a company similar to ResearchGate at that time , but realized I wasn ' t ready for the plunge . I however think that the scientific publishing industry is still ripe for disruption and I am slowly inching towards finally taking a leap at it soon . At present I work at Udacity , we are a startup trying to democratise highquality education . One of the programs we recently launched was on engineering selfdriving cars this stuff is normally only accessible to PhDs but we have hundreds of students of all backgrounds learning it through our expert instructors !