  What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher
today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing,
specifically in regards to the field of computer science and provide analysis
and data to be used as a basis for future studies. We will focus on author and
reader costs as they are the primary points of interaction within the
publishing world. In this work, we restrict our focus to only computer science
in order to make the data collection more feasible (the authors are computer
scientists) and hope future work can analyze and collect data across all
academic fields.
