Costs of Open Access publishing, required by academic organisations in The Netherlands, are a litte bit out of control. It is important to know that the quotum (number of allowed / supported publications) of agreements between the VSNU and publishers is usually exceeded well before the end of the year. Last week I have paid 6700 Euro for three #openaccess scientific publications, with no support … . Soon, scientific publishing can only survive with crowd-funding or finding wealthy supporters